Baltic States – CIS, Estonia, EU – Baltic States, Russia

Erna Raid 2009.

Delfi reports that the Russian foreign ministry published an announcement at its homepage complaining about the veterans meeting in Sinimäed last weekend and about the upcoming Erna Raid military contest, calling this praising Nazism.

Estonian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the memorial event that took place in the Sinimäed hills on 30 July is a customary, civic-initiative event that corresponds to internationally accepted practice for commemorating those who fell in World War II, like those held in many other countries. The Erna Raid is an internationally recognised military-sporting competition, writes LETA.

The Republic of Estonia has condemned the crimes of all the totalitarian regimes that occupied Estonia and denounces any ideological manipulation of this topic.