People cross the Estonia-Russia border in Narva, Estonia, in June 2007. Some have worried that Estonia's Ida-Viru County, where Narva sits and home to much of the country's ethnic Russian population, could be the next site of a Russian annexation like that of Crimea from Ukraine. Ints Kalnins/Reuters/File
Could Estonia Be The Next Target Of Russian Annexation? -- Gordon Sander, Christian Science Monitor
Some fear Estonia's Russian-speaking minority could try to follow Crimea's path. But many see the grass as greener in Estonia.
At a cursory glance, Estonia's Ida-Viru County bears some concerning similarities to Crimea. It is predominantly Russian speaking, is located in Russia's shadow, and has a long history tied to its neighbor. But Aleksandr Dusman insists that Ida-Viru County will not willingly break away from Estonia to seek the Kremlin's embrace the way Crimea did.
“Not going to happen,” says Mr. Dusman, a businessman and engineer who has been active in Ida-Viru County's regional government affairs for 20 years.
After Russia's lightning invasion and annexation of Crimea from Ukraine – and the acclaim with which the Russian-speaking dominated populace there evidently greeted it – there has been alarm across Europe that the Kremlin would soon turn its eyes toward annexing other predominantly Russian-speaking regions abroad. And few regions seemed to present a better target than this remote corner of the former Soviet republic of Estonia, where the country's 340,000 Russian speakers – out of a population of 1.3 million – are concentrated.
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Previous Posts:
Is Estonia Next? (March 20, 2014)
Could A Small Estonian Town Spell the End Of NATO? (March 31, 2014)
My Comment: As I had mentioned in my commentary in the above two previous posts .... the Russians are not going to go into Estonia.
2 comments:
WNU: You're more likely right about Estonia, but the Russians are doing a great job of spooking the West:
They seek him here, They seek him there,
Those pundits seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? — Is he in hell?
That damned, elusive Putinel
LOL. That's a good one James.
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