Well with or with out the QRA russians would still be pissed at NATO for haveing Baltic states in it.Â
I just today saw a quite new russian made map of how many people have HIV or AIDS in different countries in the world - and to my suprise they had painted Soviet Union borders on itÂ
So it isn't about flying next to Russia, it's about flying over lands which use to submit to them.
Well to your words - near the russian border. Accually we have no border. There is no such thing as official Estonian - Russian border(read: in some parts EU has no border with Russia). Russia violates the Tartu's peacethreaty and kinda occupies some parts which officially should belong to Estonia(and EU and NATO now). These are Ivangorod and Petserimaa. And Estonian goverment is stupid enough not to let them go and sign a border threaty with out them, altough there are all most no estonians left on these lands.
However what we do have is an economical lineÂ
to west from it is EU and to east is CIS.