Narrowing the Estonian Electorate
On 26 March 2025, the Parliament of the Republic of Estonia amended the composition of the electorate for local government elections. Prior to this amendment, the Constitution had granted voting rights in local elections to all permanent residents of a municipality. A significant portion of these voters were citizens of the Russian Federation or Belarus, or stateless persons originating from these states. The decision to revise the electorate was driven by the Russian Federation’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and increasing influence operations in both Estonia and Europe more broadly.
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The Baltic Politics of Post-War Accountability for Russia
Will the Russian war against Ukraine prove to be a watershed moment for the implementation of international criminal law on the aggressor? This contribution focuses on the Baltic states’ accountability-seeking for Russia as the politics of deterrence by legal means and a struggle for historical justice.
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