Word: tallinn
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...Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius, nationalists indignantly rejected the notion that they should play by the Kremlin's rigged rules. But in Moscow, Gorbachev's apparent willingness to accept even the idea of Baltic freedom further antagonized the hard-liners and set in motion the chain of events that led to last week's coup d'etat...
...formerly persecuted members of the nationalist Rukh (Movement) to founders of the new Party of Democratic Renaissance, from Ukrainian chauvinists to representatives of the ethnic Russians, who make up 20% of the population, the people I've met in Kiev seem every bit as determined as those in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius to break with Moscow. If they succeed, their country would be one of the largest in Europe. However, their rhetoric is quieter and their strategy less confrontational than the Balts...
...Moscow demonstrations and Soviet troops raided the police academy, carrying away its weapons. As in Lithuania the week before, party loyalists put together a shadowy, no-names- please committee of "national salvation" to call for presidential rule from Moscow. Communist Party organizers brought thousands into the streets of Tallinn, the Estonian capital, to demand the resignation of the elected government...
Beyond the specific complaints against Gorbachev, there is a deeper grievance. Because of both the position and the convictions he holds, he is identified with the very idea of a Soviet Union that stretches from Tallinn on the Baltic to Vladivostok on the Pacific. That idea is finished. The U.S.S.R. was kept together by force; it now has the freedom to come apart...
...where Western thinkers were widely studied. At the same time she set out to shed the unhappy legacy of her father, who in 1939 signed away Estonia's freedom to the Soviet Union. A statue of him honoring that deed still stands beside the newly constituted independent parliament in Tallinn. Now Lauristin is asking parliament to remove...