Estonia–Ichkeria relations

Dudayev received the order to crush Estonia's independence from the Kremlin in Moscow (as part of a greater plan to smash the increasing autonomy of the Baltic States in general).

The Estonian president gave a speech in support of Chechnya and this spurred similar discussions in Finland, the other Baltic countries and Poland.

The Estonian parliament soon moved to recognize Chechnya, but the bill was stopped short due to pressure from Russia and from pro-Russian elements within the EU.

In January–February 1995, through the UNPO Coordination Office in Tartu (Estonia), the Chechen diaspora, with help from others, organized a petition to get Estonian parliament to reconsider the recognition bill.

[5] On the 28th and 29 April that year, PMs (particularly those of pro-Chechen orientation) in Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, as well as representatives of Ichkeria and the Ingrian Finns held a two-day seminar on the right of Chechens to independence.

Memorial plaque in Tartu to Dzhokhar Dudayev. Estonians still feel grateful for Dudayev's actions, saving many people from massacre by the Soviet troops