In Estonia, they wanted to withdraw the signature under the border treaty with Russia

Port of Tallinn. File photoMOSCOW, May 3.Today, the Estonian parliament will consider the proposal of the Conservative People's Party to withdraw the signature under the agreement on land and sea borders with the Russian Federation, signed on February 18, 2014, the Delfi portal reports. In an explanatory note to the initiative, the Baltic deputies accused Moscow of «ideological and political attacks» on Tallinn. In addition, the parliamentarians announced the «occupation» of more than five percent of the territory of Estonia by Russia. And the conclusion of a new border agreement without succession from the Tartu Peace Treaty of 1920, in their opinion, will not allow Tallinn to receive compensation for the territories that belonged to it in the interwar period. put Russia at the negotiating table and take the continuation of the Tartu Peace Treaty as a starting point for further settlement,» the document says. There is no legally formalized border between Estonia and Russia. Initially, the border treaty was signed in 2005 in Moscow. However, when ratifying it, the Estonian side included in the preamble a reference to the effectiveness of the Tartu Peace Treaty, on the basis of which the pre-war border was drawn. Moscow regarded this move as an attempt by Tallinn to reserve the right to territorial claims in the future and withdrew its signature.Lavrov responded to accusations against Russia with an anecdote about the Estonian zoo. The Tartu peace treaty was concluded on February 2, 1920. According to the document, Soviet Russia became the first state in the world to recognize the independence of Estonia. The agreement also established the line of the state border between the two countries. Under the treaty, part of the Pskov province (the so-called Pechora region, now the Pechora district of the Pskov region of Russia), territories on the right bank of the Narova River (Narva, now the territory in the Leningrad region) went to Estonia. In 1944, these territories returned to the RSFSR. As noted in the Russian embassy, ​​the Tartu Treaty lost its legal force in 1940, after Estonia became part of the USSR. The diplomatic mission indicated that this agreement is not in the UN register of international treaties. In 2014, the foreign ministers of the two countries signed a new agreement. This document must be ratified by the parliaments of both states.