Russian officials have accused a senior politician in Tallinn of seeking to reignite old tensions, after the Estonian parliament’s speaker said his country still lays claim to swaths of territory on Russia’s Baltic coast.
In an address to mark the New Year on Friday, Henn Polluaas, the most senior figure in Estonia’s legislative assembly (the Riigikogu), decided to remind the Estonians of the Treaty of Tartu – a post-World War I peace agreement struck between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and Estonia.
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