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3 mar 1991 · In August 1991, hard-line members of the Communist Party staged an attempted coup d'état in Moscow. The situation was tense for several days and not just in Moscow. Tanks crossed the Estonian border and moved westwards to Tallinn, where they surrounded a number of locations of national importance.
The Singing Revolution [a] was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War.
20 sie 2024 · On August 20, 1991, an attempted coup by Communist hardliners in Moscow precipitated a succession of events in Estonia that, on the same day, led to a resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR to declare the country's independence from the collapsing Soviet Union.
20 sie 2024 · On 20 August 1991, Estonia declared formal independence during the Soviet military coup attempt in Moscow, reconstituting the pre-1940 state.
30 sie 2024 · 31 August 2024 marks 30 years since the last Soviet – or Russian, as the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991 – troops left Estonia, completing the restoration of the country’s independence from Soviet occupation.
17 sie 2021 · By or about Estonians, these 10 works of literature, music, film, art, and photography give a glimpse of the complex modern reality of this fascinating country, and the very different visions of it that have existed over the last 30 transformative, difficult years.
20 sie 2017 · Despite — or perhaps movitaved by — the presence of Soviet forces in the capital, that night, on August 20, 1991, at 11:02 p.m., the Supreme Council of the Republic of Estonia voted in favor of the Resolution on the National Independence of Estonia.
