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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, most of whom live in the capital city Tallinn and other urban areas of Harju and Ida-Viru counties. While a small settlement of Russian Old Believers on the coast of Lake Peipus ...
Today about 25% of Latvia's population are ethnic Russians. In Estonia, Russians are concentrated in urban areas, particularly in Tallinn and the north-eastern county of Ida-Virumaa. As of 2011, 38.5% of Tallinn's population were ethnic Russians and an even higher number – 46.7% spoke Russian as their mother tongue. [15]
Location. Tallinn. Address. Plikk 19 Tallinn, Estonia. Coordinates. 59°26′18.7037″N 24°44′44.0318″E / 59.438528806°N 24.745564389°E / 59.438528806; 24.745564389. Ambassador. Vladimir Lipayev. Embassy of Russia in Tallinn is the diplomatic mission of Russia in Estonia.
1900 (1900) The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of Tallinn[ a ] is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in central Tallinn, Estonia. It was built in 1894–1900, [ 1 ] when the country was part of the former Russian Empire. The cathedral is the city's largest cupola church. The late Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1929–2008) started his priestly ministry ...
Tallinn (/ ˈtælɪn /, Estonian: [ˈtɑlʲːinː] ⓘ) [5][6] is the capital and most populous [7] city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of about 461,000 (as of 2024) [2] and administratively lies in the Harju maakond (county).
Estonian-Russian Relations in the Context of EU Enlargement. In Kathryn Pinnick & Oksana Antoneko, eds., Russia and the European Union. Volume 1, Part 3, pages 211–224. Feldmann, Magnus & Razeen Sally (2002). From the Soviet Union to the European Union: Estonian Trade Policy, 1991–2000. The World Economy 25 (1), 79–106. Kauppila, Laura ...
The Bronze Soldier monument, with the stone structure reconstructed, at its new permanent location, June 2007. The Bronze Soldier (Estonian: Pronkssõdur, Russian: Бронзовый солдат, Bronzovyj soldat) is the informal name of a controversial [1] [2] Soviet World War II war memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, built at the site of several war graves, which were relocated to the nearby ...
Whereas in 1992 Russia accounted for 92% of Estonia's international trade, [7] today there is extensive economic interdependence between Estonia and its Nordic neighbors: three-quarters of foreign investment in Estonia originates in the Nordic countries (principally Finland and Sweden), to which Estonia sends 42% of its exports (as compared to ...