IEThe Irish Times
Walking past the decaying industrial plant, I swore I heard a Soviet ghost
From a Cold War nuclear programme to the modern race for rare earth magnets, this quiet Estonian city can’t escape geopolitics
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- 27 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
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- 27 Aug 2026, 15:01 UTC
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 27 Aug 2026, 04:51 UTC
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- Byline
- Jack Power
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From a Cold War nuclear programme to the modern race for rare earth magnets, this quiet Estonian city can’t escape geopolitics
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Walking past the decaying industrial plant, I swore I heard a Soviet ghost
From a Cold War nuclear programme to the modern race for rare earth magnets, this quiet Estonian city can’t escape geopolitics
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- #3018
- Observed
- 27 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
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- 843,332 bytes, private gzip evidence
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- news-ledger/0.1
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- metadata and excerpt