Moscow is again stirring the pot in northeastern Estonia, trying to pit the ethnic-Russian community there against Tallinn. And it is doing so in the classic tradition of Vladimir Putin’s “hybrid” war: specifically, Russia is using a report prepared by the Estonian Security Police that leaked to the press in order to blame Tallinn for that group’s problems. On the one hand, Moscow is trying to exacerbate relations between the ethnic Russians and Estonians to keep that country off balance. And on the other, it is seeking to raise questions among Estonia’s Western allies about the internal stability of this …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation