The Russian Investigative Committee, the country's top criminal investigative agency, has a dedicated department to deal with allegations of “falsification of history” and “Nazi rehabilitation”, and has intensified its work since the beginning of the war.
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Callas said on Tuesday that Russia's move was “not a surprise” but rather “further proof that I am doing the right thing.”
“The EU’s strong support for Ukraine is a success, and hurts Russia,” she wrote on social media.
“Throughout history, Russia has hidden its repression behind so-called law enforcement agencies. I know this from my family history. When my grandmother and mother were deported to Siberia, the KGB issued the arrest warrant.”
Callas, whose personal popularity declined at home after it was revealed that a company partly owned by her husband had continued to do business in Moscow in the past two years, warned in January that the Baltic country, which shares a 294-kilometre border With Russia must be prepared for conflict with its neighbour, saying that Europe has “three to five years” to prepare.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 4,000 Estonian volunteers have joined the Estonian Defense League, an organization created in 1918 when the small Baltic state was born.
It was banned in 1940, then revived in 1991, when Estonia, now with a population of 1.3 million, regained its independence after more than five decades of Soviet occupation. Of the association's thirty thousand members – all of them civilians – a third of them belong to the country's territorial defense forces, and the reason behind their existence is to confront a possible Russian attack.
The charges brought by Russia against Kalas are among 700 cases against foreigners, with clear political motives. mediazona mentioned.
There are also four Polish nationals on the list, including Piotr Hofmanski, the head of the International Criminal Court.
Last year, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin in connection with his alleged role in the deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia, which constitutes a war crime.
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