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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 07:03 PM Mar 2015

Do not forget about Eston Kohver

On September 3, 2014, US President Barack Obama stood in the centre of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and told the world that the defence and security of all the Baltic States is always guaranteed by the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Origination (NATO).

Less than 48 hours later, Russian agents crossed the border and abducted Eston Kohver, an Estonian Internal Security Service officer. This was a well-planned abduction. Communications-jamming equipment was used, as were smoke bombs and stun grenades. Perhaps most shockingly, Russian agents kidnapped Kohver at gunpoint not in Russia, but on Estonian soil in the quiet village of Miikse nine kilometres from the nearest border crossing.

After Kohver's abduction he was rushed across the border into Russia, whisked off to Moscow, and quickly paraded on Russian television. Today, he sits in Lefortovo Prison - a drab mass of concrete in Moscow built in 1881.

Lefortovo Prison served as torture chamber for the NKVD, Joseph Stalin's secret police. It served as a home to hundreds of political prisoners for the KGB. Today, the FSB - the successor to the KGB - operates the prison. Not a pleasant place to be, but Kohver has no choice.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/03/forget-eston-kohver-150315112432470.html

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