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Narva divided: Russian fireworks and a "Putin is a criminal" banner
In the Estonian border city of Narva, two communities — Estonian and Russian-speaking — share the same address but live in entirely separate canons of memory and identity. The Narva River symbolically divides not just two states but two worlds: fireworks from the Russian side in Ivangorod, and a "Putin is a criminal" banner on the Estonian side. Sociologist Barbara Szacka's concept of nations as "imagined communities" plays out here with brutal clarity.
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