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The freedom of movement and action that belong to free society gradually returned to the Estonian landscape and to people's minds. After half a century of rigidly guarded borders, bathers no longer have to fear being dragged in their swimsuits to the border guard headquarters. Coastal fishermen and devotees of all kinds of water sports can now set out to sea without a special permit.
In 1994, after three years of arduous talks, the last Russian troops were withdrawn from Estonia leaving behind a range of ecological booby-traps, such as extensively polluted ground water around military airfields or nuclear waste in naval bases.
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Demonstration against the presence of occupying troops in Tallinn
Departing Soviet tanks in Paldiski naval base