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...
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Imre Arakas (category Organized crime in Ireland)
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...
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Danske Bank money laundering scandal (category Crime in Estonia)
laundering scandal arose in 2017-2018, when it became known that around €800 billion of suspicious transactions had flowed from Estonian, Russian, Latvian and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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within organized crime and correctional facility environments and who has informal authority over lower-status members. The phrase "thief in law" is a calque...
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‹ The template Infobox event is being considered for merging. › MS Estonia sank on Wednesday, 28 September 1994, between about 00:50 and 01:50 (UTC+2)...
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Estonia declared neutrality at the outbreak of World War II (1939–1945), but the country was repeatedly contested, invaded and occupied, first by the...
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of radioactive material in Tammiku took place in 1994. Three brothers in Tammiku, Männiku, Saku Parish (Harju County), Estonia, who were scrap metal scavengers...
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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...
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In the course of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944. Estonia had gained independence...
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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...
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Tartu Credit Center Massacre (category Soviet war crimes in Estonia)
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...
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Prostitution in Estonia is legal in itself, but organized prostitution is illegal. Since prostitution is a sensitive indicator that develops with changes in the...
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Klooga concentration camp (category 1943 in Estonia)
of Europe: "Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes in Estonia" Teaching Remembrance. Cached by Gigablast from www.coe.int LeafletEstonia.asp on 21 February...
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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...
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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...
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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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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Estonia have advanced significantly over the course of the last few decades, especially since...
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Johannes-Andreas Hanni (category 1982 crimes in Estonia)
Estonian serial killer who murdered three people in 1982 with the aid of his wife Pille. Johannes-Andreas Hanni was born in Valga in Soviet Estonia,...
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Johan Bäckman (category CS1 Estonian-language sources (et))
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...
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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...
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Red Terror (category War crimes in Estonia)
minority... There can be no middle course". In a mid-August 1920 letter, having received information that in Estonia and Latvia, with which Soviet Russia had...
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The history of Estonia forms a part of the history of Europe. Humans settled in the region of Estonia near the end of the last glacial era, beginning from...
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Police and Border Guard Board (redirect from Law enforcement in Estonia)
of Estonia and to detect and prevent crime. Andrus Ansip's Government Cabinet which was established after the 2005 parliamentary elections, stated in its...
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In Estonia, the population of ethnic Russians (Russian: Русские Эстонии, romanized: Russkiye Estonii, Estonian: Eesti venelased) is estimated at 296,268...
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Yuri Ustimenko and Dmitry Medvedev (category 2002 crimes in Estonia)
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...
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was valid at the time, applicable also in Estonia, and that the said Code had not provided for punishment of crimes against humanity. Their appeal was rejected...
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