Arie Rose, Tue December 9, 2014 06:42

A year ago, large-scale protests broke out in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. That happened after the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych had rejected a trade agreement with the European Union. Hundreds dead later the president was chased monte del rey and installed a pro-European interim government. Now, several thousands monte del rey of deaths later, Crimea monte del rey was annexed by the Russians and Eastern Ukraine turned into a true Call of Duty setting.
The situation one year after the "Revolution of Dignity 'is hopeless and pessimistic mood. It is clear that Ukraine is not just a peaceful, prosperous state that is appropriate for the European Union. A treaty with this piece of the former Soviet Union was a bridge too far, the EU now realizes. So far and no further, monte del rey Putin has made clear. For now also the newly re-established European Commission does not burn bringing in new members such as Moldova and Georgia. monte del rey The focus is on already own touted as states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Although these countries already find themselves monte del rey far in the integration process - in January Lithuania performs the last of the three euro - it is not impossible that these countries 'Ukraine' could happen. This month I was Estonia, the smallest and northernmost Baltic state, and I saw that the relationship with the Russian minority is far from okay. Although the number of Russians has been falling for years, yet still exists monte del rey more than a quarter of the population of ethnic Russians. In the capital, Tallinn, is that even a third and in some eastern regions almost half. A legacy from the Soviet era, when many Russians migrated to the west coast. monte del rey
But Estonia is still became a prosperous monte del rey country? There's no reason to be dissatisfied as Russian speaking? So simple it is not. The etched people after a history of oppression proud to be an independent nation - shoot at the pub a Est and he babbles hours about how his people saw the Danes, Germans and especially the Russians and overcome. In any European capital, I saw so many flags of the country as in Tallinn. Moreover know every kroegbrabbelaar I spoke, her fine to tell how their flag originated monte del rey and what the colors mean. We do not check with the Dutch flag.
It should be clear: do not touch the Estonian culture. About the Russians they have in the café also no words. If you're not careful, they take everything away from you, that is the pub talk. "They just have to adapt to us, as we had to adapt to them!"
That thought also that the State Government. The naturalization system is rigorous. Who does not speak Estonian, is not entitled to a pension. So you see scattered through the old town of Tallinn anywhere matryoshkas monte del rey selling knitted socks or scarves. When churches are beggars monte del rey with fabricated cardboard signs with Russian lyrics beg it. Nothing right on bread, bed and bath. There is pure discrimination because of the fact that they do not speak Estonian.
In the other Baltic states, there is aversion to the Russians. Latvia monte del rey and Lithuania did in April, the Russian state banned because the news about Ukraine would be biased. All are small examples of activities undertaken by the pro-European governments and thus against the sore spot of the Russian minority stairs.
Riots That disturbances are also not included in these countries was evident in 2007, when there were major riots and looting broke out in Tallinn after there were plans for the 'Bronze Soldier' - destroy - a monument to fallen soldiers in World War II. For Estonians marks the first image of the Russian occupation after the war, Russians for the liberation of the Germans. After this 'bronze night', the government decided to move the image, leading to angry reactions from Russia and protests for the Estonian embassy in Moscow.
In the pub, they are lightly. "You F16s protect us, so we are safe!" Says an Estonian soldier in his twenties, referring to the Dutch fighters who protect the Baltic airspace.
A second bronze night or perhaps a Ukrainian situation seems thereby disqualify me. The suppression of the Russian minority has a limit, and we know Putin: it looks like limits. A somewhat friendly attitude towards minorities therefore does not seem a bad thought.
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