Episode 74: Can Eesti 200 bridge political divides in Estonia?

*** Support Talk Eastern Europe. Become a Patron at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/TalkEasternEurope" rel="noopener">www.patreon.com/TalkEasternEurope</a> <br /><br />This episode brings us back to Estonia with an interview with Kristina Kallas, a political scientist and the leader of Eesti 200 liberal political party. Ahead of the autumn local elections, political divisions are sharp in this northern Baltic state. However Kallas hopes her vision for a renewed political agenda can help change this trend. She also discusses the important situation with the Russian minority in the country and how it has evolved over the past 30 years. <br /><br />Read Kallas’s latest essay from the April-May issue of New Eastern Europe. “Russians in Estonia. We are not ‘them’, we are ‘us’”: <a href="https://neweasterneurope.eu/2021/04/11/russians-in-estonia-we-are-not-them-we-are-us/" rel="noopener">https://neweasterneurope.eu/2021/04/11/russians-in-estonia-we-are-not-them-we-are-us/</a><br /><br />Talk Eastern Europe is a member of the EuroPod network. Check it out here: <a href="https://www.bullemedia.eu/europod" rel="noopener">https://www.bullemedia.eu/europod</a> <br /><br />Join us on Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/talkeasterneurope" rel="noopener">www.facebook.com/groups/talkeasterneurope</a>