| | Arts & Humanities | The Restoration of Estonian Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | On November 16, 1988, the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR adopted a declaration of national sovereignty under which Estonian laws were to have precedence over the all-Union ones. |
 | | The same day, at the Estonia Concert Hall, the Estonian Heritage Society, ENIP and the Estonian Christian-Democratic League (founded at the end of 1988) launched the Citizens' Committees Movement with the objective of registering all pre-war citizens of the Republic of Estonia and their descendants in order to convene a Congress of Estonia. |
 | | The Estonian Supreme Soviet embarked on a path of appeasement and, ignoring the principle of legal continuity of Estonian citizenship, promised that all residents of Estonia could participate in the spring elections. |
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