Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and a number of other Baltic politicians have been put on the wanted list in the Russian Federation.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and a number of other Baltic politicians have been put on the wanted list in the Russian Federation. Thus, Vladimir Putin’s regime is setting traps for the future for undesirable Western politicians. The publication’s correspondent in the Baltic countries, Konstantin Eggert, wrote about this in his column for DW.

He clarifies that currently “wanted” are the Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas, the Secretary of State of the government of this country Taimar Peterkop, the Minister of Culture of Lithuania Simonas Keiris, the ex-mayor of Vilnius Remigius Šimašus and other politicians of the Baltic countries.

“Although the specific articles of the Criminal Code under which they are “wanted” are not listed in the database, according to a brief explanation by Putin’s alter ego Dmitry Peskov, we are talking about the dismantling of monuments to Red Army soldiers in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Moscow calls them “warriors- liberators” and persistently calls some of these actions “desecration of graves,” Eggert notes.

He recalls that in the Baltic countries the monuments are considered “visible symbols of the re-occupation of three countries by the Stalinist regime in 1944.”

“Firstly, the dismantling of any monuments located on the territory of the state is its sovereign right. Secondly, there is no “desecration of burial places”. In most cases, we are simply talking about monuments, often typical Soviet monuments, next to which there are no graves,” writes the author.

According to him, the Putin regime is not at all interested in all these facts, because “he has long returned Soviet fables about the “voluntary entry of the Baltic states into the family of Soviet peoples” into propaganda circulation.

“It would seem to declare the Prime Minister of Estonia a potential criminal – what could be better for the collective Solovyov? In the event that Callas, Keiris or another person from the list suddenly comes on vacation or to a conference in one of the countries sympathetic to Russia, they will be detained for border is not at all ruled out,” the journalist notes.

Eggert emphasizes that even if the Kremlin fails to achieve extradition, it “will be able to fray the nerves of the hated Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, plus limit the movement zone of politicians from the Baltic countries to the EU, NATO and their allies like Japan and Australia.”

“Unlike Russian officials and puppet deputies, politicians in European countries do not sit in their chairs forever, but actually return to private life. Therefore, Moscow’s plan to “search” for them could turn out to be quite effective. Moreover, at least this database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “Russia has already been “exposed” by journalists, the Russian special services will try to keep its future versions more carefully classified. The Putin regime intends to take revenge in the future. Therefore, for other politicians and public figures in the West, the threat has not passed,” Eggert sums up.

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