SECURITY OF ESTONIA ON THE BORDER OF FREE WORLD
The geographical position and smallness of Estonia are a great possibility and at the same time also an inevitable challenge for us. Estonia is the smallest country in Europe and in the whole Western world that has managed to survive and become successful in spite of its forced situation politically and geographically. Estonia’s location on the geographical and political world map is one of the important grounds for our current success story. Both the fact that we have excellent models like the Nordic countries, and the fact that Russia never lets us stay in our comfort zone in our development. Estonia’s location is often viewed only in terms of neighbourhood to Russia. It has of course been the most critical issue of our existence throughout history. I will dwell on Russia later, but I would like to start with the main factor of Estonia’s success story – our being part of the Western world and, in particular, the Nordic space. Estonia’s location in the Western world
