One of the leaders of the pro-Russian Koos party and Estonian citizen Aivo Peterson was sentenced to 14 years in prison for treason by Harju District Court on Thursday.
The trial, which began in November 2023, dealt with allegations of treason against Estonian citizens Peterson and Dmitri Rootsi, as well as claims that Peterson and Russian citizen Andrei Andronov acted to undermine Estonia’s independence.
The charges were connected to meetings with Russian politicians, aligning policy positions, the organization of an independent civil defense organization, and a Russian-funded press trip to occupied Ukraine.
According to the indictment, Peterson and Rootsi, based on instructions received from Russia, knowingly and in an organized manner assisted Russia and people acting on behalf of Russian authorities in non-violent activities directed against the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Estonia from October 2022 to March 10, 2023.
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That’s what the mod said I was doing. That’s not what I was doing. I was referring to apartheid institutions and I was talking about the legitimate right of conquered people to use violence within the limits of international treaties to defend themselves and on the same breath I was saying long live all the people of all faiths free and happy.
But this is a profoundly ridiculous turn for this thread. You’re scrutinizing my sparse modlog instead of engaging with my actual arguments. That’s bad faith and ad hominem. If you need to go look at the one time my comments were too edgy for a mod’s liking to discount what I have to say here in this thread, that says more about your lack of a real counter-argument.
You should pipe down instead of trying to turn this into a fight.
I love the smell of condescension in the morning.