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Cover of a biometric Estonian travel document for refugees (old version) An Estonian travel document for refugees is an internationally recognised travel document issued to refugees by the Police and Border Guard Board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Estonia in accordance to the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
Estonia has shown its commitment to Ukrainian refugees by taking in around 25,000 since the start of the war — the equivalent of 2 percent of its entire population, Liimets said.
Soviet deportations from Estonia were a series of mass deportations in 1941 and 1945–1953 carried out by Joseph Stalin's government of the former USSR from then Soviet-occupied Estonia. [1] The two largest waves of deportations occurred in June 1941 and March 1949 simultaneously in all three occupied Baltic countries : Estonia, Latvia, and ...
Most of the Ukrainians in Estonia support the integration of non-Estonians into Estonian society, while retaining their own cultural and ethnic particularities. For the Estonian population of Estonia, on Saturdays the fourth channel of the Estonian Radio (the Russian language channel) broadcasts Ukrainian language radio broadcast ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The leaders of Estonia and Luxembourg on Tuesday criticised their European Union peer, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over his recent encounter with Russia's Vladimir ...
Across the globe, refugees are trying to settle into new surroundings and are running into new challenges thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. But too often news coverage of refugee issues doesn ...
Estonian Swedish men were conscripted into the Red Army and, during the German occupation, into the German armed forces. Most of the remaining Estonian Swedes fled to Sweden prior to the second occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union in 1944. On 8 June 1945, there were 6,554 Estonian Swedes and 21,815 ethnic Estonian refugees in Sweden. [3]
Of the total, 6,437 refugees were transiting, leaving 18,753 who planned to stay in Estonia. [153] By 31 March, 25,347 refugees, of whom about 40 percent were children had entered Estonia. [154] The government received 13,289 applications for temporary protection. [154] By 3 July, 49,016 Ukrainian refugees had entered Estonia. [155]