As a fighting nation, Russia has offended many people because of its excessive military efforts in history, including its neighbor - Estonia! Recently, Estonia has once again had a war of words with Russia over some disputed lands.
According to the Russian Satellite Network, the estonian conference president Hen Perus said that the border between the two countries should be redrawn in accordance with the 1920 Tartu Peace Treaty. The Tartu Peace Treaty between Soviet Russia and Estonia entered into force in 1920, before the Soviet Union was established, and the two countries demarcated the right bank of the Narva River and the Bejolsky District as the border between the two countries. But Russia today treats the treaty as an outdated historical document and does not consider it valid. Because in the 1930s the Soviet Union occupied the Hanko Peninsula of Finland, annexed Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in Romania. The Tartu Peace Treaty was in fact invalid.
This has led to huge differences between the two sides on the demarcation of the border line. Peruez's statement was clearly to include the right bank of the Narva River and the Bejorski district in estonia. This makes Russia very uncomfortable! Slutsky, chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma, believes that Perruez's words were addressed to a "domestic audience" and incited anti-Russian sentiment among the people. Such rhetoric makes the Russia-Ireland Boundary Treaty, adopted in 2014, inoperative and exacerbates tensions between the two countries. As long as such anti-Russian rhetoric persists, Estonia and Russia will not be able to establish normal diplomatic relations.
In other words, Russia is warning Estonia not to covet territory that belongs to Russia. Because at no time will Russia give up an inch of territory. This statement is the same as Putin's statement that "although Russia is large, no inch of territory is superfluous".
Imagine ukraine repeatedly demanding the Crimean Peninsula, and Japan repeatedly asking for four northern islands without taking back even an inch of land from Putin, let alone little Estonia. Estonia risks turning the other cheek with Russia and making territorial claims in order to curry favor with NATO and the United States in order to gain more military and economic support.
At present, Estonia has also suffered the impact of the epidemic, with more than 20,000 confirmed cases in the country and 174 people have died from the new crown virus. Although the number of infections and deaths is small, it still causes work distress to the government. For example, an Estonian lawmaker was tested for COVID-19 last December. His infection, although it did not undermine the work of parliament, gave the Estonian government a wake-up call that the new crown epidemic cannot be ignored. It is possible that in order to divert the negative sentiment brought by the new crown, the Speaker of the Estonian Parliament will vent his dissatisfaction with Russia. Of course, the territorial claim to Russia is part of the political tradition of the Estonian parliament. In the past two years, Estonia has made territorial claims against Russia on many occasions. For example, in his 2020 New Year's message, The Speaker of the Estonian Parliament, Peruez, reiterated that the Tartu Peace Treaty concluded between Estonia and Soviet Russia in 1920 is still in force today.
He always believed that after the independence of modern Estonia in 1991, it was the Independent Republic of Estonia in 1918. The border between Estonia and Russia was established in accordance with the Treaty of Tartu. So the treaty still has legal force.
But in fact, according to the Treaty of Tartu, parts of the territories of Leningrad and Pskov oblasts were redistributed to Russia in 1944. Accordingly, Russia believes that there is no border dispute between the two countries. In addition, Estonia's repeated raising of the russian-Irish disputed territory issue is likely to cooperate with the United States in blocking the "Nord Stream-2" project. After all, the project is about US gas profits and anti-Russian plans, which is why Estonia has such a position.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fate of the former Soviet republics and the former Warsaw Pact countries developed roughly in three very different ways. All the countries that immediately threw themselves into the arms of NATO and the American father without hesitation, and quickly made a complete cut with Russia, such as Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Phoempah, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, etc., these countries got rid of the shadow of the Soviet Union, followed the West, all gained security and self-protection, and their economies developed better.
All those who continue to maintain hardcore relations with Russia seem to be mixed well, such as Kazakhstan and Belarus.
The third is more tragic, and at the same time ambiguous relations with the West and Russia, entangled, and the end of the rats, the fate is quite sad, such as Ukraine and Armenia.
This shows that the national character is like a drama, and it is very important to take sides.