{"id":108029,"date":"2026-06-13T13:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=108029"},"modified":"2026-06-13T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:16:51","slug":"estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/estonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Estonia Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estonian government officials and business executives are expressing greater interest in cooperating with India in defence and trade.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Estonia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a country in <\/span><b>northeastern Europe,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>northernmost of the three Baltic states. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>bordered by Russia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>east <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Latvia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>south<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also <\/span><b>bounded by the Gulf of Finland<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>north<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Baltic Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>west, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Lake Peipus <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>east<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estonia shares its<\/span><b> maritime borders<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with <\/span><b>Finland and Sweden.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estonia\u2019s area includes some<\/span><b> 1,500 islands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and islets; the<\/span><b> two largest<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of these islands, <\/span><b>Saaremaa and Hiiumaa,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are off mainland Estonia\u2019s west coast.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Capital: Tallinn\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Official Language: Estonian\u202f\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Currency: euro (\u20ac)\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Political System: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0It is a <\/span><b>parliamentary republic.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Estonia <\/b><b>History<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Ruled at various times<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during the Middle Ages by <\/span><b>Denmark<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>German knights <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Livonian Order, and <\/span><b>Sweden<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Estonia ended up part of the<\/span><b> Russian Empire <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>18th century.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It experienced its first period of<\/span><b> independence in 1918,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> following the <\/span><b>end of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/world-war-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">World War One<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the collapse of the Russian Empire.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><b>1940 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it was <\/span><b>forcibly incorporated into the U.S.S.R.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as one of its constituent republics.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estonia remained a <\/span><b>Soviet republic until 1991<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, when, along with the other Baltic states, it declared its independence.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Soviet Union recognized independence<\/b> <b>for Estonia and the other Baltic states<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on September 6, <\/span><b>1991<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>United Nations membership<\/b> <b>followed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shortly thereafter.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estonia set about <\/span><b>transforming <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">its government into a <\/span><b>parliamentary democracy <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and reorienting its economy toward <\/span><b>market capitalism.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><b>2004 joined<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the North Atlantic Treaty Organization <\/span><b>(NATO) and the European Union (EU). <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/incoming\/estonian-govt-industry-pitch-more-cooperation-with-india\/article71093927.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia is a country in northeastern Europe, the northernmost of the three Baltic states. 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