Estonia offers a useful model for what Canada should do. Shortly after Russian diplomats in Estonian helped organize the deadly 2007 Bronze Soldier riots in Tallinn, Estonia repeatedly denied entry in 2009 to Johan Bäckman, a Finnish Kremlin-aligned activist known for hostile, Stalinist attacks on Estonia and for denying the Soviet Russian occupation. In March 2022, Estonia expelled three Russian diplomats for directly undermining its security and spreading propaganda justifying Russia’s war. Weeks later, it expelled 14 Russian consular staff, including seven diplomats. And in August 2025, Estonia expelled a Russian Embassy first secretary for what its foreign ministry described as activities undermining Estonia’s constitutional order and seeking to divide Estonian society.
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