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- From: thietaniemi@cc.helsinki.fi
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.soviet
- Subject: RUSSIANS consider ESTONIANS hostile
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.192120.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 17:21:20 GMT
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 54
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- A positive feature in the Estonian politics:
-
- > CSCE HUMAN RIGHTS TEAM TO ESTONIA. An international team of
- > experts sponsored by the CSCE will visit Estonia early next month
- > to investigate Russian allegations of human rights violations
- > there. An RFE/RL correspondent in Warsaw reports that the visit
- > was announced on 16 November during a CSCE symposium. Ever since
- > last June, when Russia began linking alleged human rights abuses
- > in the Baltic to maintained troop presence, Estonia has repeatedly
- > asked the CSCE and other international organizations to send in
- > teams to monitor the situation. (Riina Kionka, RFE/RL, Inc.)
-
- Now, we should get the neutral observes to study the situation.
- It's just great: Estonia has nothing to conceal!
-
- On the contrary, this kind of monitoring is crucial to the Estonians,
- because, as the Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty reports:
-
- > RUSSIANS THINK BALTS ARE HOSTILE, SAYS POLL. A recent poll of
- > leading Russian opinion makers shows the three Baltic States at
- > the top of a list of foreign countries regarded as being hostile
- > to Russia. According to an October poll conducted by the Russian
- > Department of Public Opinion Research among parliamentarians,
- > party and military leaders, and other influential persons, some
- > 70% of the respondents named Estonia as being the country most
- > hostile to Russia, followed by 62% for Latvia and 58% for
- > Lithuania. The countries regarded most friendly toward Russia
- > included Kazakhstan (86% of the respondents), Germany (55%) and
- > the US (44%). Only 5% of those questioned considered Estonia to be
- > either "a friendly country" or "Russia's ally." BNS, citing
- > Interfax, reported the results of the survey, released on 16
- > November at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Council for Foreign
- > Policy meeting held that day in Moscow. (Riina Kionka, RFE/RL,
- > Inc.)
-
- This is a fact: Russians ARE afraid of Estonia in some odd way
- - a lilliput nation that amounts about one million Estonians...
-
- And, please, place this against the backround that there is NO RECORD OF
- ETHNIC VIOLENCE against Russians in nowadays Estonia!
-
- Most odd, don't you think?
-
- And, one should not forget: it is also the other way around. During
- the so-called Baltic crackdown in the beginning of 1991 about a dozen
- Lithuanians were killed by Soviet troops and about half a dozen Latvians
- by OMON. No Estonian got shot or was run over by a Soviet tank.
-
- Have you ever wondered, why?
-
- asks
- the observer
- Tapani Hietaniemi, Universitas Helsingiensis
- urbs fennorum
-