Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and Lithuanian Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys were included in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs' wanted list. Mediazona discovered this by downloading the entire publicly available search database from the Ministry of Internal Affairs website — almost 100 thousand search cards.
The database does not indicate under what crime Kairis and Kallas are wanted. Earlier, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, demanded that his subordinates check the actions of the Estonian authorities in connection with the demolition of a monument in the form of a T-34 tank in the Estonian city of Narva near the border with Russia.
In addition to Callas and Kairis, the wanted list included more than a hundred officials and politicians from Eastern Europe, against whom criminal cases were opened after the demolition of Soviet monuments in their countries. Among them are two-thirds of the last convocation of the Seimas of Latvia, the city councils of Lithuanian Riga, Klaipeda and Vilnius in Lithuania, Lutsk and Rivne in Ukraine, the mayor of the Polish city of Walbrzych and the Deputy Minister of State Assets of Poland.
Details about this and who else the Russian security forces are looking for can be found in the study by Mediazona, which downloaded and analyzed the entire search database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Who are the security forces hunting for? «Mediazona» downloaded and studied the entire search database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs — and made a convenient search for it