[caligatrux]

There is no indication that the abduction is more than an isolated criminal incident...

Nothing to see here, move along.

[AU72]

Putin’s Baltic adventure begins.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Visions of Peter Graves.

[Dagnabitt]

Just some local vodka smugglers trying out their jamming equipment and smoke grenades.

[1rudeboy]

RT tweeted that he was a Nazi. So . . . no harm, no foul.

[no-to-illegals]

Wonder if Trout is hanging around?

[GeronL]

Estonia is an easy target I guess having less than 2 million total people.

[Southack]

So 0bama visits, security goes into play, then one of the security guys gets abducted...

[sphinx]

Putin knows he has two and a half years of free runnning left before he faces even the possibility of challenge. D’ya suppose he can get the Berlin Wall rebuilt by then?

[Dagnabitt]

Scene of the crime.

[ApplegateRanch]

an isolated criminal incident...

Putin's version of The Knockout Game.

[Alter Kaker]

The Russians haven’t invaded the Baltic states since 1944. And before that it hadn’t been since 1940 that they’d invaded. Give em a break.

[Covenantor]

Cheka with new badges

[redgolum]

The Baltic states are screwed. They are to small to stand on their own, and to far away to get help.

Time to restart the Forest Brethren. You can’t keep them out, but you can make them want to leave.

[gaijin]

ISOLATED INCIDENT by overworked rogues at the Cleveland field office.

[free_life]

Russia is at war while West plays Scrabble.

[McGruff]

Is Estonia a member of NATO?

[free_life]

Drunk Russians in Warsaw by Christmas.

[AdmSmith]

the immediate reaction of the government in Tallinn was to play down Friday's incident in the hope that it was the work of local Russian commanders who have a record of involvement in the smuggling trade.

The Kapo chief, Arnold Sinisalu, issued a statement saying there appeared to be no political motivation behind the incident. Estonia's president, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, tweeted that: “Kapo, like FBI in US, deals both with counterintelligence *and* organized crime. Just in some places they turn out to be same.”

The hope that the affair would turn out to be low-key was initially strengthened when Estonian and Russian border guards performed a joint inspection, which seemed to verify the evidence of an incursion from Russia into Estonia, including multiple footprints in a band of raked sand in that runs through no-man’s land.

By Sunday, however, it became increasingly clear that Russia had other ideas. The Estonian was taken to Moscow where he was paraded before television cameras. The Russian Federal Security Service, the FSB, successor to the Soviet KGB, claimed Kohver had been caught on Russian soil.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/07/russia-parades-detained-estonian-police-officer

This is the twitter account of the President of Estonia: https://twitter.com/IlvesToomas follow it for additional info.

[Dagnabitt]

Hope this brave Estonian official gets his freedom soon from Putin's thugs.

Estonia is a lovely country, with great people. I lived there for several years.

Unfortunately, you can't pick your own geography. And tiny Estonia, drew the short straw, with that enormous gangster-led garbage pit to east.