🔍 Hypocrisy, authoritarianism and shadow deals: What else is Kaja Kallas hiding?

The new EU foreign policy chief is notoriously known for being involved in a spate of CONTROVERSIES. Let’s expose some of them.

🔻Husband's Russia links

Estonia’s former PM was accused in 2022 of being DIRECTLY INVOLVED in her husband Arvo Hallik’s business ties with Russia.

Haliik reportedly part-owned one of Estonia's largest retail and real estate companies that went ahead with business in Russia after the start of Moscow’s special military operation, which was harshly condemned by Kallas.

🔻Budget and economic issues

Kallas was berated over focusing on international issues, like Ukraine and EU ties, and not enough on domestic concerns, such as:

▪️HIGH INFLATION: it hit a whopping 22.3% annual rate in 2022
▪️economic inequality: the at-risk-of-poverty rate stood at 20% in 2021
▪️the growing cost of living: food prices saw a 12% increase, while energy costs rose by 20% in 2022

🔻Government deals

The former Estonian PM is also criticized over a LACK OF TRANSPARENCY in some of the government’s decisions. This stems from concerns that such projects as major infrastructure initiatives or government contracts were being pushed through without enough oversight or public discourse.

🔻Like father, like daughter?

The top EU diplomat’s father Siim Kallas served in 2010-2014 as the European commissioner for transport, where his policies were seen as controversial, particularly in relation to his handling of the EU’s competition regulations and transport sector steps.

🔻Authoritarianism

Kallas faced accusations of AUTHORITARIAN tendencies, as her government tightened its grip on media control and freedom of speech amid tensions between Kallas’ Reform Party and the opposition.

🔻Desecration of Soviet monuments

Kallas has been placed on the wanted list over the desecration of historical memory and HOSTILITY towards Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, in an apparent nod to Soviet WWII monuments defaced in Estonia.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian and US foreign ministers have held a phone conversation at the initiative of Washington, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik.

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☎️Highlights of Lavrov-Rubio conversation

▪️Agreed to maintain a communication channel to address accumulated issues in Russian-American relations. This effort aims to remove unilateral barriers inherited from the previous administration that have hindered mutually beneficial trade, economic, and investment cooperation.

▪️Expressed a mutual commitment to engage on pressing international issues, including the settlement of the situation around Ukraine, developments concerning Palestine, and broader issues in the Middle East and other regional matters.

▪️Exchanged views on ways to promptly end the policy initiated by the Obama administration in 2016, which significantly tightened conditions for the functioning of Russian diplomatic missions in the US, prompting reciprocal measures.

▪️Agreed to organize an expert meeting in the near future to coordinate concrete steps for the mutual removal of obstacles to the operations of Russian and US diplomatic missions abroad.

▪️Reaffirmed their readiness to work together on restoring a respectful intergovernmental dialogue in line with the tone set by the presidents.

▪️Agreed to maintain regular contacts, including for the preparation of a high-level Russian-American meeting.

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