Wary of divided loyalties, a Baltic state reaches out to its Russians. Worried that divided loyalties in its largely Russian- speaking border areas could lay Estonia open to conflicts like those in eastern Ukraine and Crimea, Estonia wants to better integrate its Russian speaking minority. Estonia and the other Baltic nations look at Russia's actions in Ukraine and fear they could easily be overrun by their huge neighbor. By reaching out to his country's Russian- speakers, Ratas is hoping to bolster national unity and remove a possible pretext for Russian intervention. So while Ratas is taking language lessons, his new government is trying to make it easier for Russian speakers to obtain Estonian citizenship and to improve the border region's economy, where unemployment is high. Out of a population of 1. NATO member, about quarter are Russian speakers. Most of those have Russian passports or do not have any citizenship. For a graphic on Russians in Estonia, click tmsnrt. QVUw. Some security analysts say any grievance amongst Russian speakers that they feel they are . President Donald Trump may prove soft on the Kremlin, combined with fears about . Latvia and Estonia have large Russian- speaking populations, the result of migration when they were under Soviet rule. But only in Estonia has a party with a Russian- speaking electoral base come to power in a ruling coalition. Minister of Health and Labour Jevgeni Ossinovski, a native Russian- speaker and the leader of the Social Democrats, a coalition government member, said reaching out to Russian- speakers was necessary given the tense geopolitical situation. Many Russian speakers rely on Moscow- backed television stations, which Estonia says broadcast Kremlin propaganda. Arrival and doorstep by Jüri RATAS, Prime Minister of Estonia, ahead of the European Council, taking place on 23 June 2017, in Brussels. Includes a history of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Sweden. Dalia Ibelhauptait. Join Facebook to connect with Dalia Ibelhauptait. Facebook gives people the power to share. Literatura en la Posguerra. Literatura española: Historia de la literatura española y libros en español. Novelas en español, poemas españoles, etc.Some in Estonia fear the arrival of around 1,0. NATO troops will inflame tensions. President Vladimir Putin said in 2. Russians in Estonia gives Moscow the right to intervene with force. Earlier this month, NATO accused Russia of being behind a false report of a rape by German soldiers in Lithuania intended to undermine support for the troops, and said the alliance expected more of this kind of propaganda. Estonia remembers 2. World War Two Soviet soldier sparked violent protests by Russian speakers and a wave of cyber attacks widely believed among Estonians to have come from Moscow. Fear of occupation runs deep in the Baltics, annexed by the Soviet Union under Stalin's secret 1. Hitler, overrun by the Nazis during World War Two and then recaptured by the Red Army and held until the Soviet Union fell in 1. Russian troops left Estonia only in 1. But many Russian speakers who had migrated to Estonia after the war had to take language and history tests. Many people instead opted to have no citizenship or get a Russian passport. Nine out of ten people in the town speak Russian. On the Russian side, locals sit on foldable chairs ice fishing. At a new border control building, people had passports with different colors - red Russian passports and gray passports for people without citizenship. At a college on the Estonian side a short walk away, 2. Denis Larchenko talks about arguments with his father. Until the election of Ratas as leader of the Centre Party, most other Estonian parties were unwilling to work with it because of its alleged links to Moscow. But the city can be touchy. Attempts to force taxi drivers to improve their Estonian met stiff opposition from the cabbies. A younger generation of Russian speakers may already be more closely integrated with the Estonian majority, more concerned about access to European jobs than nostalgia for Mother Russia. Many of his friends are heading West, to the Estonian capital Tallinn and beyond. Vladimir Kuznetsov, a 3. Russian speaker, first joined the military, he did not know the Estonian word for . Now he is a volunteer officer speaking fluent Estonian. Aet Kiisla, a lecturer in public administration in Narva, says most Russian speakers are loyal to Estonia, but suspicious of governments. It may be enough for the Kremlin to act. If Russia would turn on all the propaganda methods and tools then it is possible.
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