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Estonia becomes the 36th country in the world where same-sex couples can marry.
2024-01-1

After being arrested in Russia, American journalist Evan Gershkovich is charged with espionage.
2023-04-7

Estonia summons 1,700 reservists for a snap drill, which will include installing a 40-kilometer-long razor wire barrier along the border with Russia as the migrant crisis with Belarus intensifies.
2021-11-17

Russia announces that it will be suspending its mission to NATO in Brussels as early as November 1, in response to the expulsion of 8 diplomats accused of espionage from the mission earlier this month. The NATO information bureau and military liaison in Moscow will also be terminated.
2021-10-18

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania announce that they will expel several Russian diplomats involved in espionage activities in solidarity with the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic had ordered most Russian diplomatic staff to leave Prague on Thursday and called on its European allies to do the same.
2021-04-23

French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly reveals that a lieutenant-colonel of the army stationed at a NATO base in Italy has been arrested and indicted on charges of espionage on behalf of another government, after he was reported to have supplied "sensitive" documents to an officer of the GRU, a Russian military intelligence agency.
2020-08-30

Authorities raid the German bank Deutsche Bank as part of a money laundering probe into €200 billion of suspicious payments identified into the accounts of Danske Bank's branch in Estonia. Danske Bank's Estonian boss from 2007 to 2015 is found dead near Tallinn at his home in circumstances police describe as neither suspicious nor accidental.
2019-09-25

The European Union narrowly votes (285–281) to recommend that its 28 member nations drop criminal charges against Edward Snowden and protect him from U.S. extradition and to recognize him as a defender of human rights because of his revelations regarding U.S. and British spying.
2015-10-29

The President of the United States visits Estonia in a move to reassure the Baltic states ahead of a NATO summit in Wales.
2014-09-3

India arrests a woman working at its embassy in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on charges of espionage.
2010-04-27