The Estonian authorities threatened the employees of Sputnik Estonia criminal prosecution if they are until January 1, 2020 will not cease to work in MIA " Russia today ", informs a press-service of the Agency. As specified in the appeal, the correspondents received a letter from the Department of the border guard of the country " with direct threats of excitation against them criminal cases." Their actions Tallinn justified the punishments that the EU imposed in March 2014 against a number of individuals and legal entities on the background of events in Ukraine. Executive Director of "Russia today" Kirill Vyshinsky will make the issue of threats to media personnel for discussion of the HRC. Estonia is the only Baltic countries, which has a full office and the office of Sputnik. The team consists of 35 people, 33 of them are citizens of Estonia, working under labor contracts with MIA " Russia today ". Monthly tax payments in country's budget amount to nearly 30 million euros. As told before, the chief editor MIA "Russia today" and RT Margarita Simonyan, Sputnik never faced such problems in Estonia: its employees were summoned to the security Service And the local banks were banned from cooperating with the Agency. By the end of October, the Estonian branches of international banking groups froze Sputnik Estonia transfers of salaries, tax and lease payments. And the landlord unilaterally terminated the contract on rent of office. The authorities of the Baltic countries many times hindered the work of the Russian media, And among them the resources of the MIA " Russia today ". As noted in the Russian foreign Ministry, these actions say about the clear signs of a coordinated line of Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn and demonstrate, which in practice are demagogic statements about their commitment to the principles of democracy and freedom of speech. <span style="color:darkgray