US EditionEstonia’s border town caught in a diplomatic standoff between NATO and Russia
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Estonia’s border town caught in a diplomatic standoff between NATO and Russia
Estonia's Narva has become a tense microcosm of the NATO-Russia standoff. Since 2022, Estonia has fortified the border with anti-tank obstacles and moved to sever ties with Moscow. In this 95% Russian-speaking town, the government has mandated Estonian in schools and recently banned Russian citizens from local voting. Amid Russian provocations like removing border buoys, residents feel increasingly torn between two worlds.
_**On the eastern border of the European Union, the city of Narva embodies the geopolitical and identity tensions that cross the region. Its Russian-speaking majority now lives under the diffuse threat of a neighbour whose provocations are multiplying.**_ On both sides of the eponymous river, two historic fortresses face each other, symbols of a contemporary division. [...] The article Narva, Estonian sentinel facing the Russian shadow, appeared…
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