Apparently it was a problem from the 1990s. There was opposition to independence from Russian immigrants in the Baltics.
Estonia is extremely ethno-centric in its citizenship laws. A lot of Freepers would probably approve of the Estonian take on this. There is no birthright citizenship unless one has Estonian ancestry going back several generations. One can, it seems, live in Estonia as a resident, but cannot aquire citizenship without passing an Estonian language test and other onerous requirements.
This all goes back to how the communists treated the Estonians. Many native Estonians were deported by Stalin, many went to the Gulag never to return, many were killed in place. (It’s true for all the Baltic states!) Stalin and other Soviet dictators moved in ethnic Russians to make up for the population loss.
Estonia is extremely ethno-centric in its citizenship laws.
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How does that square with Estonia’s virtual digital citizenship offered online to the entire world?
Asking seriously.
“Estonia is extremely ethno-centric in its citizenship laws.”
Yet America cannot forbid illegals of any race to come here otherwise we are labelled “racist”
Also you just know if Russia expelled ethnic Estonians that Estonia would kvetch and scream “GENOCIDE! GENOCIDE!”