Estonia is a relatively safe country, and the risk of being a victim of crime in Estonia is small by international standards. As in other post-Soviet...

Russian organised crime that killed over a hundred people. Arakas was nearly killed on more than one occasion. He left Estonia for Spain in 1998. A failed...

laundering scandal arose in 2017-2018, when it became known that around €800 billion of suspicious transactions had flowed from Estonian, Russian, Latvian and...

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across...

A number of war crimes trials were held during the Soviet occupation of Estonia (1944–1991). The best-known trial was brought in 1961, by the Soviet authorities...

Finland and the Soviet Union, organized crime in Estonia and the Russian Mafia, terrorism, and the history of Estonia. As a proclaimed spokesman for the Finnish...

of radioactive material in Tammiku took place in 1994. Three brothers in Tammiku, Männiku, Saku Parish (Harju County), Estonia, who were scrap metal scavengers...

within organized crime and correctional facility environments and who has informal authority over lower-status members. The phrase "thief in law" is a calque...

constitute a crime against humanity by the Parliament of Estonia and acknowledged as such by the European Court of Human Rights. In Estonia, as well as in other...

MS Estonia sank on Wednesday, 28 September 1994, between about 00:50 and 01:50 (UTC+2) as the ship was crossing the Baltic Sea, en route from Tallinn...

Estonian (eesti keel [ˈeːsʲti ˈkeːl] ) is a Finnic language of the Uralic family. Estonian is the official language of Estonia. It is written in the Latin...

Holocaust in Estonia refers to Nazi crimes during the occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany. By the end of 1941 virtually all of the 950 to 1,000 Estonian Jews...

Estonia declared neutrality at the outbreak of World War II (1939–1945), but the country was repeatedly contested, invaded and occupied, first by the...

Crime in Latvia is relatively low, by global standards, especially compared to previous years, when it was named the "crime capital of Europe" by Forbes...

A hate crime (also known a bias crime) is crime where a perpetrator targets a victim because of their physical appearance or perceived membership of a...

Massacre (Estonian: Tartu Krediidikassa massimõrv) was the mass execution of 19 people in the basement of the former Credit Center in Tartu, Estonia, on 14...

In the course of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944. Estonia had gained independence...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights in Estonia have advanced significantly over the course of the last few decades, especially...

The national flag of Estonia (Eesti lipp) is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue at the top, black in the centre, and white at...

Estonia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Partners in Crime" written by Berit Veiber and Hendrik Sal-Saller. The song was...

operating in Estonia. They secretly arrived in Estonia over the Narva Reservoir in the autumn of 2001, after deserting a submarine school in St. Petersburg...

Prostitution in Estonia is legal in itself, but organized prostitution is illegal. Since prostitution is a sensitive indicator that develops with changes in the...

population of Estonia. When the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 1940, it gained control over a number of naval bases in the Baltic...

of Estonia and to detect and prevent crime. Andrus Ansip's Government Cabinet which was established after the 2005 parliamentary elections, stated in its...

Crime has been committed by immigrants, and people have sought to study the relationship between immigration and crime. This has controversially long been...

The history of Estonia forms a part of the history of Europe. Human settlement in what is now Estonia became possible 13,000–11,000 years ago, after the...

participating in transnational organised crime, namely narcotics trafficking and money laundering. Imre "The Butcher" Arakas – A notorious Estonian hitman,...

established by President of Estonia Lennart Meri in October 1998 to investigate crimes against humanity committed in Estonia or against its citizens during...

interior of the Estonian SSR, Edmund Näär (1920–1973). Tartu Credit Center Massacre Alexander Statiev (2010). The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western...

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