Estonia Transnational Issues Profile 2003

Disputes - international

Russia continues to reject signing and ratifying the joint December 1996 technical border agreement with Estonia

Illicit drugs

transshipment point for opiates and cannabis from Southwest Asia and the Caucasus via Russia, cocaine from Latin America to Western Europe and Scandinavia, and synthetic drugs from Western Europe to Scandinavia; increasing domestic drug abuse problem; possible precursor manufacturing and/or trafficking