ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the Estonian discursive dynamics on the contemporary Russian version of democracy after Estonia's accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004. Estonian discourses on Russian democracy bring home the old post-structuralist truism about the necessity of others for the construction of oneself. The evolution of Estonian discourse on the contemporary Russian model of government carries an imprint of the Baltic post-EU accession revelation that, even after their official inclusion in the Western European political and security community, their discursive position betwixt and between Europe and Russia hardly changed. Estonia's critique of the Russian mimicry of democracy emerges as an attempt to dismantle its camouflage nature in order to demonstrate its potentially subversive effects for the Western model. Russia's mnemopolitical idiosyncrasies are thus pointed out as yet another proof of its fundamental difference from the European style of working through the painful legacies of the past.
