Other events in Baltic States

Monday is the 21st anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Sovereignty of Estonian SSR, writes the National Broadcasting/LETA.

On this day, the Supreme Council of Estonian SSR declared on an extraordinary session Estonia’s laws having supremacy over the laws of the Soviet Union.

The session of the Supreme Council lasted for 10 hours and 258 MPs voted in favour of the declaration.

Among other things, the declaration stated that due to the Stalinist regimes and the internal policies of the period of stagnation, the demographic situation has become unfavourable for Estonians in Estonia. The environmental situation was catastrophic and the destabilisation of the economy had an adverse impact on the population’s standard of living.

The decision adopted 21 years ago has also been called a test of honesty and openness for the former Supreme Council.