Estonia

A small and heavily forested country, is the most northerly of the three former Soviet Baltic republics.

Not much more than a decade after it regained its independence following the collapse of the USSR, the republic was welcomed as an EU member in May 2004. The move came just weeks after it joined Nato.

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These historic developments would have been extremely hard to imagine in not-so-distant Soviet times.