The broadcast also shows excerpts from Latvian and American materials and states that “the epicenter of Russophobia is no longer London, Berlin or Washington, but the Baltic States.”
In particular, it used videos from Postimees journalists without permission, interrogating people at the Bronze Soldier Monument in Tallinn on May 9th. Although there were those who spoke to Estonian journalists who condemned the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, only those who criticized the Estonian government and authorities were left in the Russian state television. The questions of the Postimees journalist, which mentions the Russian invasion and war in Ukraine, which the Kremlin simply calls a “special operation”, were not translated either.
According to security expert Eric Neil Cross from the Reform Party, it is believed that “teams of so-called journalists” from Russia, who have been traveling to Estonia since Bronze Night and tried to stage some stories, have not been able to enter Estonia at all this year. or get to the Bronze Soldier.
Bronze Night is the night on April 27, 2007, when riots took place in Tallinn in connection with the transfer of a monument dedicated to Soviet soldiers, the so-called Bronze Soldier, from the city center to the soldiers’ cemetery.
The Estonian Border Guard has reportedly tightened controls at the Russian border, and Estonia has expelled three members of the Russian embassy and a Russian citizen, the Kremlin propagandist Alexei Isaakov, one of the organizers of the Immortal Regiment in Estonia. According to Estonian police, Isaakov has been inciting national hatred for years, spreading Kremlin propaganda and cooperating with Russian propaganda channels.
“So they had to combine what was available on Estonian channels and serve it in the appropriate sauce,” Kross said, adding that intellectual property had never been respected at all in Russia.
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