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Narva People's Republic

November 2, 2026

Russia’s age-old strategy of exploiting minorities

Ibrahim Mammadli In March this year, a Russian online campaign promoted a fake 'Narva People’s Republic' in Estonia. It flopped. But the playbook behind it is still in use. Ibrahim Mammadli argues that Estonia can control only one step of that playbook: whether there are real grievances for Moscow to exploit. That makes integration, not tougher rules, the country’s most important security policy Read more

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