To Alex: You are right, I shouldn’t be telling you where you sourced some or another news item from – it’s your news, and it is for you to tell us where you heard it. But wherever you may have sourced that particular “news” from, I am in a position to tell you that it is false. Nazism is not glorified in Estonia and there are no “Nazi parades” there. I have heard of one or two (literally one or two) right wing extremists there who occasionally put their head in public and say ridiculous things, and there may well be one or two (literally) others whom I have not heard of, who do the same. Although this isn’t clear in my memory any more, I believe I also once heard of a private gathering on someone’s farm of perhaps 10 or 11 such people. But these people are considered as sad clowns by the Estonian public, and there is no sympathy for their views. There is also a small and isolated “punk” youth subculture in Estonia, which is the merest microcosm of their large and very visible counterpart in Russia. But on either side of the border, I don’t think any of them have much idea of what real Nazis were, and would probably be horrified if ever they learned. And that’s about it as far Estonia and Nazism goes. I repeat, there are no public monuments to Nazism in Estonia and no parades or rallies glorifying Nazism. And most importantly of all, no sympathies for that sort of mutant politics. Also, let me assure you that Yeltsin has not apologised to Estonia about Soviet Russian crimes there. No Russian leader ever has. In view of the monumental nature of that criminality and the profound pain, injury and loss which it caused to the Estonian nation and to almost every Estonian family, an apology is important to provide confidence that Russia takes responsibility of its past, and is serious about ensuring that nothing similar will ever happen again. This is necessary for trust and respect to be restored.