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Estonian Prime Minister and Baltic Officials Placed on Russian Wanted List Over Monument Disputes

<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Russia has put the Estonian Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, and other Baltic states officials on a wanted list.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Kremlin's spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Estonian leader took hostile acts against Russia and its historical monuments. The Russian foreign ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, said the Estonian state secretary Taimar Peterkop, the Lithuanian culture minister Simonas Kairys, and Ms Kallas are accused of destroying monuments of Soviet soldiers.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Moscow has placed multiple senior Kyiv officials and generals on its wanted list since the start of the conflict with Ukraine, but Estonian Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas is the first known government head to be sought by Moscow.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The removal of Soviet-era monuments has been a delicate issue in Estonia, a former Soviet republic from 1944 until 1991, where nearly a quarter of the population of 1.3 million people, is ethnic Russians.</p>

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