Meelis Maripuu at the opening of the conference "Estonian Refugees in World War II". Source: Marko Poolamets/Estonian Memory Institute. Maripuu would like to see refugees who left Estonia earlier ...

A World War II-era mystery surrounding the disappearance of a Finnish passenger plane carrying American and French diplomatic couriers that was shot down over the Baltic Sea appears to have been ...

A diving and salvage team in Estonia said this week that it had located well-preserved parts and debris from the Junkers Ju 52 plane operated by Finnish airline Aero, which is now Finnair.

Estonian authorities has moved to demolish and relocate Soviet-era World War II memorials in the border city of Narva, a decision that earlier sparked warnings and protests from Moscow.

During World War II (WWII), a total of 70,000-80,000 people fled Estonia. To date, the refugee database, which can be found on EMI's homepage, contains records for approximately 65,000 people whose ...

Estonia has removed a Soviet-era World War II memorial from Narva, a large Russian-speaking majority city, accusing Russia of using such monuments to stir up tensions.

Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia have for years feuded with Russia and their own ethnic Russian populations over memories of World War II and the Soviet Union’s role in the defeat of Nazi Germany ...

Finland Estonia WWII Missing Plane 1 of 5 The Junkers Ju 52 aircraft "Kaleva" by the Finnish airline Aero is parked at the Katajanokka seaplane harbor in Helsinki equipped with floating bottom skis.

The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet bombers appears to finally be solved more than eight decades later.