== Present status == 

  has put a  tag on the intro passage 'is a political party in Estonia'. I personally feel that the concluding passage of the present article works fine. As to the existance of the party today, we can see several sources (albeit none is particularily good): 
 *http://www.esdtp.ee/euroopa/stalinism.htm (website of the Estonian Left Party) states that the party has only one member 
 *http://erakonnad.instituut.ee/erakonnad/registreerimata/vanad/ekp.html says that it might exist today 
 *listed at http://www.solidnet.org/redlink.html 
 *Signatory to varios declarations, such as 2005, 2006, 2006, 2007, 2007 
 *Participant in the 2004 & 2005 International Meetings of Communist & Workers Parties. In 2005 represented by Juri Misin, see speech here. 
 *Misin interviewed in , Communist Party of Canada publication 
 *Mentioned at http://www.wpb.be/links.htm 
 *http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9906/sovpeop.htm says congress of EKP was held in 1999 
 *Participant in the 2005 International Communist Seminar (http://www.icsbrussels.org/ICS/2005/Contributions_to_the_Seminar/Sci05_Estonia_CPE_paper_EN_LOK.doc), represented by Mishin. Noted by KCNA. 
 *Participant in meeting held in Athens March 2008,  
 With this background, i find the present wordings are resonable. If 'is' was to be changed to 'was', the there would just be more confusion.