You wouldn t be referring to the agreement of rouble transfer that V hi signed before Laar s PMship The one that the State Comptroller s Office condemned as irresponsible and unlawful Nope illegal agreements can t be considered as sufficient basis for giveaway of billions of roubles It might have made a heck of a bribe to the then reigning Soviet authorities sure As for the SUR EEK exchange nobody was forced to exchange their cash I retained a few of my hard earned rouble banknotes as memorabilia myself There s no need to remind you that they lost all financial value in a few short years It just so happened that BoE s rate was among the best available rates and while SUR kept falling EEK managed to brake the inflation down to a manageable level Remember events from this era are generally poorly understood by the general public A lot of rumours circulated some better some worse Some of these rumours were politically motivated It was an era so hectic there was even no Internet Taking a random thing you read or hear about anything from the early 1990s Estonia is likely to mislead you