Comments on: B EAST’s Tips to Estonia for Beating the Recession http://www.beastnation.com/travel/b-east%e2%80%99s-tips-to-estonia-for-beating-the-recession/ Fashion, Music, Culture, Travel, East Europe, New Europe, Poland, Russia Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: :E http://www.beastnation.com/travel/b-east%e2%80%99s-tips-to-estonia-for-beating-the-recession/#comment-1901 :E Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:42:54 +0000 http://www.beastnation.com/?p=459#comment-1901 Shouldn't rely too much on Russia, their business policies are based on politics which makes it unreliable. One day you are a co-owner of a small firm, next day you're the spy and get deported and assets seized. Fortunately the transit and tourist revenues amounted to very small percentage of overall GDP, so the unofficial sanctions that started in 2007 affected Estonia very little. Shouldn’t rely too much on Russia, their business policies are based on politics which makes it unreliable. One day you are a co-owner of a small firm, next day you’re the spy and get deported and assets seized. Fortunately the transit and tourist revenues amounted to very small percentage of overall GDP, so the unofficial sanctions that started in 2007 affected Estonia very little.

]]> By: John Turkman http://www.beastnation.com/travel/b-east%e2%80%99s-tips-to-estonia-for-beating-the-recession/#comment-1899 John Turkman Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:51:35 +0000 http://www.beastnation.com/?p=459#comment-1899 the Finns were their strongest allies during the Soviet times, Dude, what are you talking about? The Finns were practically half-Soviet themselves. Estonia would never have regained independence if the whole world was like Finland. "Russians are effusive in their forgiveness" Total straw man. So Estonians took down a statue. Statues and WWII monuments get vandalized and removed in Russia all the time. There's nothing to apologize for. The riots were barely even worth checking out. I lived in the neighbourhood. Maybe there was about 45 minutes on the first night that was a little edgy. the Finns were their strongest allies during the Soviet times,

Dude, what are you talking about? The Finns were practically half-Soviet themselves. Estonia would never have regained independence if the whole world was like Finland.

“Russians are effusive in their forgiveness”

Total straw man. So Estonians took down a statue. Statues and WWII monuments get vandalized and removed in Russia all the time. There’s nothing to apologize for.

The riots were barely even worth checking out. I lived in the neighbourhood. Maybe there was about 45 minutes on the first night that was a little edgy.

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