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We are very anxious to find out his identity."The video pictures show a man wearing a blue baseball cap and a grey, hooded sweater with a Nike logo.The cameras did not capture the attack itself, which took place last Wednesday on the first floor of the upmarket NK department store in central Stockholm. there are a couple of special names we want to check".The murder weapon has been found and two men who were questioned were later released. Thousands of pieces of information have been received since pictures of a man they want to question, taken from video surveillance footage, were given to the media.A police spokesman said: "We would like to have even more help from the public with identifying this man in the picture. The authorities will face acute criticism if they fail to make a swift arrest.A police spokeswoman said they were investigating "known criminals and assailants, a group of about 10 ... Police said yesterday that they were working on hundreds of leads and seeking 10 people for questioning over the murder of Anna Lindh, Sweden's Foreign Minister, but they admitted "no breakthrough" had been made.

It listed the half-dozen times Russia attacked Estonia - starting with Ivan the Terrible's invasion in 1558.One refrain from EU backers was that "a no to the EU is a yes to Russia.". Growth exploded and inflation was curbed, standing now at just under 5 percent.Voters seemed swayed more by psychological factors, including that membership will mark this Nordic-oriented country's return to mainstream Europe after so long on the fringe.Both sides sometimes resorted to scare tactics to sway the 850,000 eligible voters, many of whom expressed confusion about what EU entry will mean.Many pro-EU ads raised the specter that Estonia's erstwhile ruler Russia could re-exert its influence if the nation stayed out of mainstream Europe. The economy was in free-fall - with annual inflation topping 1000 percent, and Russian troops, remnants of a 50-year Soviet occupation force, remained at hundreds of bases here.But radical open-market reforms were implemented immediately after communism unraveled, and Estonia quickly gained the reputation as the most successful of the 15 former Soviet republics. 1 goal for every government since Estonia regained independence amid the 1991 Soviet collapse, with leaders insisting it would boost living standards for most and, in the case of the elderly, at least for their children and grandchildren.Twelve years ago, it looked like it would take decades for Estonia to meet EU requirements. Even if it failed, parliament wasn't required to adopt the results.Eight of the 10 new EU invitees have approved their referendums, and Cyprus is leaving the decision to lawmakers. Estonia's Baltic neighbor Latvia will be the last to hold a referendum on Saturday.All are expected to become full members in May 2004.At times in recent months, Estonian opinion polls suggested lukewarm support for membership - raising at least the possibility that Estonians could snub the powerful European bloc.The government and businesses, spooked by prospect of missing out on seamless access to lucrative EU markets, pulled out the stops - and campaign cash - to ensure victory.EU entry has been a No.

a family of the European people," he said.Some 63 percent of 850,000 eligible voters cast ballots, though there was no minimum turnout requirement for the vote to be valid. "I'm so glad Estonians made this right choice."At a festive gathering at the Scotland Yard pub in the capital, Tallinn, Prime Minister Juhan Parts compared the results to the day in 1918 when Estonia first declared independence, only to lose its freedom to the 1938 Soviet invasion."We will stay Estonian (in the EU), but with this emotional feeling that we will belong to a family ... Estonians have voted strongly in favourt of joining the European Union, preliminary government figures showed late last night - fulfilling what once seemed an unattainable dream for the small, historically vulnerable Baltic state. Results showed a more than two-to-one margin in favor of joining the bloc as 67 percent of voters in the country of 1.4 million voted yes, compared with 33 percent who voted no, the Central Election Commission reported with 100 percent of its 652 polling stations counted."This decision will guarantee the future of Estonia," a smiling Kristiina Ojuland, the country's Foreign Minister, told The Associated Press as the victory for EU proponents became apparent. More than one million Swedes are thought to have cast their votes by postal ballot before Ms Lindh's death."Yes" campaigners blamed their failure on lack of preparation and divisions within the Social Democratic government.. One theory is that the trauma of the murder encouraged voters to opt for the status quo.

Another is that the "no" camp benefited from the high turnout with more of its supporters voting than had been expected. But the "no" supporters seemed to benefit more as the expected "Lindh effect" failed to materialise. At the headquarters of the "no" campaign run by members of the Social Democrat Party, which is divided on the euro, the evening began with a minute's silence. The five cabinet ministers who defied party line by backing the "no" side were not at the meeting.Both camps had called on voters to turn out in large numbers to show that democracy cannot be thrown off course by violence. When asked if Sweden would lose influence within the EU as a result of the vote, he said: "Certainly, yes."More than seven million Swedes were eligible to register their views in yesterday's vote, which was overshadowed by the assassination of Ms Lindh.Eurosceptic celebrations were muted. He added: "This demonstrates the extent of doubt that exists in Sweden and is increasingly reflected in other parts of Europe."Romano Prodi, president of the European Commission, described the result as "worse than expected".

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