Nationals of Russia or Belarus living in Estonia who own firearms will be given a deadline to surrender them voluntarily, or have them seized by police as security threats, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said on Monday.

“In any case, we will send this draft law to the Riigikogu during the current government’s term. This has already been agreed upon, and a deadline has been set. We will definitely give time for people to voluntarily hand over their weapons, and after this deadline expires it will be the police’s turn,” she said, according to the outlet Postimees.

Last month, the government in Tallinn voted to stop issuing Schengen visas – documents needed to enter the European Union, of which Estonia is a member – to Russian nationals. That too was justified by Kallas as a “security threat.”

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So, this is a rather dark road they're going down. If an armed Russian resident is a security threat and a Russian tourist is a security threat that means all Russians are a security threat, inherently. If all Russians are a security threat, surely all Russians should be expelled, right? If they don't tell them to leave, the "security threat" remains, right? How to contain that threat? Concentration camps?

I had some interactions with a guy, online, whose mother was German and father was Russian. His mother's brother fought for the Germans (WWII). His father, as a young man, escaped to Estonia, from communist USSR, only to be caught and imprisoned by the Nazis in Estonia. Very complicated history in that part of the world and modern day Estonia is both anti Russian (because of the past and communism) and Nazi sympathetic.