WikiLeaks: 'Putin has a personal gripe with Estonia'

Posted By Joshua Keating Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 12:25 PM Share

The Moscow Times reports on a diplomatic cable obtained by the Russian newspaper Kommersant featuring a bit of amateur psychology on why the prime minister seems so ill-disposed toward Estonia: 

A cable dating back to December 2009 cites the Estonian Foreign Ministry's undersecretary and ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Harri Tiido, as saying that "Estonia seeks pragmatic relations with Russia and has managed a number of productive working level meetings over 2008."

But relations remained "difficult at the political level" because of Putin, who alone decides the policy toward Estonia even after trading the presidency for the prime minister's post in 2008, Tiido said.

"Putin has a personal gripe with Estonia," Tiido is quoted as saying.

Putin's father, also Vladimir, fought in the Red Army during the war and parachuted into Estonia for an unspecified operation. But locals, still disgruntled with the country's occupation by the Soviet Union in 1940 — a year before the Germans invaded Estonia — handed him over to the Nazi forces, Tiido said. Putin's father later managed to flee but was injured as he left, he said.

Eh...maybe. Putin has never seemed particularly fond of any former Soviet republic that actively seeks to escape Russian influence. Does he have particular emnity toward Estonia? At least he's never threatened to hang any of the country's leaders by the balls.

Russian-Estonian relations hit a low point in 2007 following the removal of a controversial Soviet war memorial in Tallinn. The move prompted an official rebuke from Moscow and was followed shortly after by a massive cyberattack, allegedly orchestrated by Russian nationalists. 

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October 4, 2011

Wiki Leaks Is All Lie, This is what I think

After having many leaks from wikileaks I reach to point that he is just working as an agent for US. He is just saying what US policies tell him to do. Well I am against US but this is my opinion about his leaks.

Proof for my assumptions is that you can see that Interpol is too fast that they capture each and every criminal but how come its possible that US intelligence not able to reach a person which is telling all the secrets on media.

Again this is my opinion, I am sharing it here and it is not some thing related to buy temazepam or making enmity between people. One thing here to describe more is WikiLeaks just saying bad points only about enemies of US. This is what another fact that can convey my point.

Well, every one has their own choice of thinking and I think like this, may be assumptions are wrong.

 

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