Mah, you say my description of the Bronze Night  "sounds like propaganda." This depends on what you're measuring it against. All that I wrote is factual, and can be verified from any relevant news or historical source, Russian propaganda excepted. That, unfortunately, inhabits a world of its own where facts don't matter. But if you have accepted Russia's inventions as fact, real facts might very well sound like propaganda. At least, that is what the purveyors of Russian anti-Baltic lies hope, and in your case they seem to have succeeded.

As for "deaths" "imprisonment" and "abuse", one person died in the Bronze Night events.  One. He was a Russian youth, a part of a gang that was smashing shop windows in Tallinn and looting the contents. He was found stabbed, with his pockets filled with goods stolen from a nearby looted shopfront. Despite investigations, his killer/s were never found. It is possible that they were some of his own drunken mates who got into an argument about sharing the loot.

Rioters were indeed arrested on those couple of nights, and detained in a warehouse for lack of available  police cells (Tallinn doesn't have or need many of those). There is no evidence of abuse of arrested people, nor any reports of this from the large contingent of journalists on the scene. Such allegations come only from the usual Russian propaganda screech. Check it out. Some think the police used too much force against rioters, but rioters always think that.

I already explained that my "poisonous allegations" comment referred to usual Russian anti-Baltic propaganda, not specifically to the current article.  I have also mentioned my acquaintance with many problems in Estonia. I do not idealize it. I simply point out that Estonia is nothing  at all like Russia misrepresents it to be. Visit it, and you'll know.

As for cross-border invasions, yes, more or less every nation has done it. But your mention of Germany is a poor choice. Germany has acknowledged its Nazi era crimes, does not distort history, has investigated and purged itself of Nazi era state criminals, has reconciled with its former victims, has outlawed the Nazi party and regalia, has no Nazis in parliament, and is not led by a former Gestapo officer. Russia fails on each of these counts in regard to its Soviet era equivalents. Therefore Germany inspires trust and respect amongst its neighbours. Russia does not.

Oh and I must just mention this because my good morals prevent me from not doing so.  Your apologizing of the deaths which occured around the Bronze Night Event and the imprisonment and abuse and the general white-washing of it is actually literally revolting.  I can assure you, as someone who has read on the subject, very few Russians feel thankful for the gross and hideous manner the Estonian authorities and people conducted the matter and things are far from, once again, as idyllic as you try to make them out to be.  Marzipan6 reading your comments would lead one to believe that Estonia is some sort of egalitarian paradise which I can assure you it is not.  It is better than many countries in some regards and worse in others.  Like all other countries.  The superiority which you seem to give to Estonia above Russia smacks of either an inferiority complex or downright discrimination.  ; But my real question to you remains what is wrong with this article?  On what basis does the EU have the right to make such a scandalous and manipulative comment and why can Russia not react in such a way?  Please anwser my question.

Yeah I'm going to be very frank with you but your description of the Bronze Night Event really just sounds like propaganda and a refusal to accept actual mistakes made by that country.  I can see getting you to accept that Estonia has serious problems is a pointless cause so i'm not gonna waste time on it.  Needless to say i disagree whole-heartedly.&nbs p; What you are pointing out is simply that Russia has attacked its neighbours often...like everyone else.  Should I record the number of times germanic based peoples or mongolian based peoples have invaded Russia or Russian ancestor groups?  Does that mean that Germany and Mongolia ahve some conspiratorial desire to conquer Russia?  No what it means is that, like all human history, countries invade their neighbours.  This is neither unique to Russia nor is it anymore laudable it is simply a fact of history.  You see some grand conspiracy when all that actually exists is historical based prejudice from both sides.  But I digress again my question is whether or not you were refering to this article as poisonous allegations.  You are blurring the actual point of contention by bringing up all these other points.  My question is do you believe this response by Russia to the EU to be a 'poisonous allegation'? You also seem to have forgotten that an equally virtulent stream of anti-russian propaganda emerges from Latvia and Estonia.  The world is nowhere near as black and white as you make it out to be my friend.