The Russian police pursued the head of the government of Estonia Kai Kallas, a message about this was published on Tuesday on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, the AFP and Reuters agencies, cited by Agerpres, reported.

Callas is being prosecuted “in a criminal case,” the police say, without specifying the nature of the crime. Estonian State Secretary Taimar Peterkop and Lithuanian Culture Minister Simonas Kairis are also being persecuted.

The spokesman of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that these three are hostile to Russia, are “responsible for decisions that are de facto an insult to history” and “people who carry out hostile actions against the historical memory of our country.”

AFP reminds that Russia considers itself the liberator of the respective countries and claims that any other point of view is falsification of history, which is a crime under Russian law.

The Russian state agency TASS, citing an unidentified source in the security services, claims that the relevant officials are accused of “destroying and humiliating some monuments to Soviet soldiers” from the Second World War.

In recent years, several similar monuments inherited from the former Soviet Union have been demolished in the Baltic states, gestures that marked a departure from the period when Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were annexed by the USSR.

Estonia and two other Baltic countries fear Russian aggression against them

The three countries that are currently members of the European Union and NATO have tense relations with Moscow, and Russian minorities live on their territory. Differences intensified after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: the Baltic countries actively support Kyiv and consider the possibility of a Russian attack on them quite real.

Last week, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the charge d’affaires of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, accusing their countries of “sabotaging” Russia’s upcoming presidential election in March by refusing to provide security for polling stations at the Russian embassies in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. in accordance.

In January, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi visited the three Baltic states, Latvia and Estonia terminated their legal assistance agreements with Russia on the grounds that the Russians had attacked Ukraine.

In the same month, Estonia refused to extend the residence permit of the head of the Estonian Orthodox Church, subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate, who is a citizen of Russia, considering him to be a threat to national security.

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