“We are letting the citizens of an aggressor state peacefully visit the Louvre … and return to [their] homeland as if nothing has happened,” he said in an interview, speaking about Tallinn’s decision to ban Russians with Estonian-issued Schengen visas from entering Estonia starting Thursday. /../
Estonia is firmly in the camp of Russia-tourism skeptics.
Rather than just pointing the finger at Putin as Scholz did, Reinsalu said ordinary Russians “bear also moral responsibility for the passivity of legitimizing this regime to act.”
“Passivity has consequences,” he said, adding that on top of “moral” reasons, the ban would put pressure on Russians and act as a “wake up” call for them, while protecting Estonia’s security interests.
