In connection with an informal meeting on the Arria-formula held by the Russian Federation at the UN on June 2, the European Union expressed regret at this "deliberate attempt to divert the attention of the international community from Russia’s destabilization efforts since 2014."
Russian military representatives were in Estonia Wednesday, inspecting Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) facilities, under the terms of an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) agreement dating back to 2011.
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Photo: Weapons inspectors from the Russian Federation getting an overview of Exercise Spring Storm. Author: Artur Zahharov,Ardi Hallismaa, Oliver Turp
Russian military representatives were in Estonia Wednesday, inspecting Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) facilities, under the terms of an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) agreement dating back to 2011.
The Russian delegation s visit coincided with the third week of the annual large-scale Spring Storm (Kevadtorm) exercise, and took in activities connected with this at Tapa, Lääne-Viru County, home of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battlegroup and the EDF s central training polygon in Harju County, ERR reports.
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Estonia has a reputation for being one of the most digitized societies in the world. How has this impacted your foreign policy approach, especially your promotion of human rights, free speech, and privacy in the digital sphere?
The protection and promotion of human rights, including freedom of expression, is an integral part of Estonia’s foreign policy. The digitization of society has played an important role in defining our human rights priorities. We are of the firm opinion that the same rights people have offline must also be protected online as is also stressed in the Tallinn Agenda of the Freedom Online Coalition, adopted in 2014 in Tallinn. In order to secure a democratic and free society, freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, as well as the right to privacy need to be duly protected and promoted onli
Personnel from the Russian Federation have begun an inspection of a military area in Estonia, under the terms of an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) agreement.