Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Konstantin Evstafiev
[REGNUM] Estonian President Alar Karis approved a law providing that the language of instruction in all schools and kindergartens must be exclusively Estonian. The Estonian elites have come close to realizing their long-standing goal of depriving the local Russian community of the means of reproduction and thereby achieving its assimilation.
| It doesn’t sound like the Russians are forbidden to set up after evening or weekend classes in their own language. In America it is not only the Jews who have Hebrew school for religious and language instruction, but the Chinese, Koreans, and no doubt others. Even the Catholics and Protestant sects set up their own schools for religious instruction for those who cannot or will not send their children to private religious schools. I realize it’s hard to give up the idea of the Russian empire, but if y’all are not willing to be fully participating citizens of the country, you ought to move your children back to the current territory of Mother Russia. |
In Estonia, Russian-speakers make up to 30% of the population, in Tallinn they are almost half - up to 47%. Previously, in elementary schools of national minorities, Russian children had the opportunity to study in their native language, and at the so-called “gymnasium level” (grades 10–12), up to 40% of teaching could be carried out in a “non-state” language. For the ruling Estonian parties, this order of things seemed too liberal, and there were constant proposals to transfer education in schools of national minorities “only to the state language.” |