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Former President Kersti Kaljulaid said on the “Ukraina stuudio” talk show that Estonia's decision to cut in half the number of employees at the Russian embassy, to which Russia responded by asking the Estonian ambassador to pack up and leave, was less mature than Estonian diplomacy has been in the past year, public broadcaster ERR reports.
Kersti Kaljulaid
Kersti Kaljulaid
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Kaljulaid admitted that she is no longer up to speed on all processes and does not know why Estonia decided to go after parity at that particular time.

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