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...years of occupation by the Soviet (and later Russian) army ended as the last soldiers quietly faded away. Joyous Balts celebrated with fireworks, speeches and a free rock concert at a former Soviet military base in the heart of the Estonian capital, Tallinn. "Today," said Estonian President Lennart Meri, "signifies the end of the saddest chapter in our history...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Estonian President Lennart Meri signed an agreement ending Russia's 50-year military presence in the Baltic republic. Russia will withdraw its 2,000 remaining troops by month's end in the compromise accord, which allows some 10,000 retired Soviet military officers living in Estonia to apply for residency there...
Seeking to defuse the crisis, Estonian President Lennart Meri consulted with European legal experts. On their advice, Meri refused to sign the aliens act into law and last week called the Estonian parliament back into an emergency session, where more fuel was added to the fire when legislators proposed holding an emergency session to discuss suspending Narva's city council. Should this happen, tensions could get out of hand. As Vladimir Khomyakov, a Narva city-council member, brusquely put it, "This is our homeland; we have no other. The only way out now is autonomy. Otherwise, there will...
...ceremony in Bonn, the foreign ministers of the three republics personally accepted Germany's recognition. The 1939 nonaggression treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union set the stage for Stalin's annexation of the Baltic states the following year. "It is only today," said Estonian foreign minister Lennart Meri, "that the last consequences of the Second World War have been done away with...
...this issue. A group of concerned students have organized as an alternative slate to the Coop stockholders' recommendations for the positions, which have too long been the highly-sought after tokens for resume-stuffers on their jaunt to business school. They are, in alphabetical order, Amy Banse, Jeff Brown, Meri Kane, Anita Landecker, Guy Molyneux, Jerome Rubin, Nancy Sinkoff, Indi Talwani and Rick Valelly. The members of the slate deserve support in what could be the first geniune effort to restore the Coop's original mission as a cooperative serving the Harvard and MIT communities...