Estonia Celebrates the Restoration of Independence
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In Estonia today the declaration of independence from the Soviet Union was celebrated 35 years ago.
Estonia marks the 35th anniversary of its independence on Thursday. The country will mark the historic day with ceremonial events in Tallinn, remembering the evening of August 20, 1991, when, amid a coup in Moscow and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Estonian Supreme Council voted to restore the country's independence.
The celebration of the 35th anniversary of the restoration of Estonian independence began early in the morning with the ceremonial raising of the national flag at the Tall Hermann Tower.
Estonia marks 35 years since the vote that restored the republic
Editor’s Note: Estonia’s restored republic turned 35 on Thursday. The flag went up over Toompea, the Tallinn seat of the Riigikogu, Estonia’s parliament, in the hands of four men who defended the city’s TV tower against Soviet paratroopers in 1991. They held the tower on the day Estonia voted to restore its independence. That vote came just after 11 p.m., and it settled less than the anniversary suggests: recognition arrived within weeks, Soviet…
At seven in the morning, a solemn national flag-raising ceremony took place in the Governor's Garden.
Ülo Nugis's hammer blow confirmed the Supreme Soviet's decision on Estonian national independence on August 20, 1991, and our country became free again. The independence of the energy system had to wait another 34 years, as the frequency of the Estonian electricity system was still controlled from Russia.
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