Today the Bridge Team is publishing the agreement between Russia and Estonia that formalises the practice of repatriating refugees following the First World War and the Russo-Estonian War. On 19 August 1920, in Reval, the chairmen of the Russian-Estonian Joint Commission on the Exchange of Prisoners of War signed an agreement regulating the legal status and procedure for the repatriation of several categories of persons (prisoners of war, hostages, members of their families, refugees, as well as servicemen of the former North-Western Army) who found themselves on the territory of the contracting states as a result of the wars. The document set out the criteria for classifying persons as refugees, the procedure for forming convoys and approving lists, the principle of free rail transport at the expense of the sending party, and the rules for the removal of property.