How one of Russia's neighbors is dealing with Putin's propaganda

Yana Toom is an Estonian member of the European Parliament from the Centre Party. She spoke at a town hall at Narva College, a local campus of the University of Tartu. (Nora Lorek for NPR)

NARVA, Estonia — At a town hall in an Estonian city on the border with Russia last month, the challenge of fighting Russian disinformation was on full display.

Yana Toom, an Estonian member of the European Parliament, joined journalist Anton Aleksejev and academic Aleksandr Astrov at Narva College to talk about the war in Ukraine. Toom, whose Centre Party relies on the Estonian Russian-speaking community's support, had recently made a public pivot — to condemn Russia's war in Ukraine. She called the move a potential "political suicide" in an interview with NPR.