Russia has put Kaja Kalas on the wanted list

Russia has issued a wanted list for Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kalas, according to a statement posted on the Interior Ministry's website.
Callas is being prosecuted in Russia in a "criminal case," the statement said, without specifying what crime or offense the leader was charged with.
Estonian State Secretary Taimar Peterkop is also wanted, as is Lithuanian Culture Minister Simonas Kairys.
A Russian security source, quoted anonymously by state news agency TASS, said the two Estonian officials and the Lithuanian minister were being prosecuted for "destroying and damaging monuments honoring Soviet soldiers" from World War II.
In recent years, several of these monuments, inherited from the USSR after World War II, have been dismantled in the Baltic states as a sign of rejection of Soviet power.
A Russian minority lives in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, three former Soviet republics that are now members of the EU and NATO and have strained relations with Moscow.
These relations have been further strained by the conflict in Ukraine. The Baltic states, which consider the threat of a Russian invasion to be real, actively support Kiev in its fight against the Russian army.
Last week, Russia summoned a charade d'affaires to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, accusing them of "sabotaging" Russia's presidential election in March by refusing to provide security for polling stations at Russian embassies on their soil.
In mid-January, Latvia and Estonia decided to terminate their legal assistance agreements with Russia. Officials in both countries cited Moscow's attack on Ukraine as the cause.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky toured the Baltic states.
Estonia also refused to extend the residence permit of the head of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, a Russian citizen, on the grounds that he posed a risk to national security. /BGNES