RIGA - No power disruption is expected in connection with the planned disconnection of the Baltic states from the Russian power grids on February 8-9 and their connection to the European power grid, ...
TALLINN, Estonia — Arnold Rüütel, the last communist leader of Soviet Estonia and the Baltic country’s second president after the restoration of independence, has died. He was 96.
Former Estonian president Arnold Ruutel, seen as one of the fathers of the country's return to independence in 1991, has died at the age of 96, the president's office said overnight.