The Russians in Estonia would prefer to stay where they are. I think life
in European Estonia would be preferable to Moskvaabad or other parts of the
Russian Federation experiencing a decline in the Russian demographic and
standard of living.
PI
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Francine Ponomarenko <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Why doesn't Moscow just ask these Russians to come home to mother Russia.
> Their population growth is low, life expectancy low, and so why not just
> repatriate these Russians home, and leave the Balts and Ukrainians alone.
>
>
> But it isn't about this, it is about subjugation,power and empire.
>
> It's about appropriating the history of other people, and grabbing their
> land.
>
> I guess he wants to show folks what a strong man he really is.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, 19 March 2014, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> And so dreams of glory and imperialist expansion dance in Putin's head.
>>
>>
>>
>> Moscow signals concern for Russians in Estonia
>>
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/19/us-russia-estonia-idUSBREA2I1J620140319
>> By Robert Evans
>> GENEVA | Wed Mar 19, 2014 1:03pm EDT
>>
>> (Reuters) -- Russia signaled concern on Wednesday at Estonia's treatment
>> of its large ethnic Russian minority, comparing language policy in the
>> Baltic state with what it said was a call in Ukraine to prevent the use of
>> Russian.
>>
>> Russia has defended its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula by
>> arguing it has the right to protect Russian-speakers outside its borders,
>> so the reference to linguistic tensions in another former Soviet republic
>> comes at a highly sensitive moment.
>>
>> Russia fully supported the protection of the rights of linguistic
>> minorities, a Moscow diplomat told the United Nations Human Rights Council
>> in Geneva, according to a summary of the session issued by the U.N.'s
>> information department.
>>
>> "Language should not be used to segregate and isolate groups," the
>> diplomat was reported as saying. Russia was "concerned by steps taken in
>> this regard in Estonia as well as in Ukraine," the Moscow envoy was said to
>> have added.
>>
>> The text of the Russian remarks, echoing long-standing complaints over
>> Estonia's insistence that the large Russian minority in the east of the
>> country should be able to speak Estonian, was not immediately available.
>>
>> But amid the growing Crimea crisis, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - which
>> like Ukraine were all parts of the old Soviet Union - have expressed
>> growing apprehension over Moscow's intentions.
>>
>> U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is currently in the Lithuanian capital
>> Vilnius as part of a trip to reassure the three countries, all European
>> Union and NATO members, of Washington's support.
>>
>> Ukraine told the rights council that U.N. experts had found no credible
>> evidence of mistreatment of its Russian minority as alleged by Moscow --
>> one of whose pro-Kremlin newspapers said this week there was "bloodshed
>> almost like in Syria" in the east of the country.
>>
>> The new government in Kiev, a Ukrainian envoy declared, was
>> reinvigorating its promotion and protection of the rights of minorities "to
>> the highest international standards".
>>
>> The envoy asked what measures could be taken to protect Ukrainian,
>> Crimean Tatar and other minority groups in Crimea "whose rights are being
>> violated under the Russian occupation."
>>
>> Responding, the Russian delegate said there were no violations of
>> minority rights in Crimea and minorities were not being persecuted. The new
>> Russian-backed government there had guaranteed protection of the Tatars.
>>
>> (Reporting by Robert Evans; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
>>
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