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- From: thietaniemi@cc.helsinki.fi (Tapani Hietaniemi)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.soviet
- Subject: ESTONIAN citizens in PETSERI/PETSHORA (Was: The Grand Duchy...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.131454.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:14:54 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.172930.1@cc.helsinki.fi> <1993Jan27.014908.14110@dxcern.cern.ch> <106747@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <106747@netnews.upenn.edu>, sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu
- (Sergei Borodin) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan27.014908.14110@dxcern.cern.ch> gen@vsnhd7.cern.ch
- (Eugene Chudakov) writes:
- >
- >> One my friend who had visited Pechory few weeks ago wrote me in
- >>an e-mail that the local people got upset about Estonian claims and
- >>have no will to go into Estonia.
- >
- > No wonder. Firstly, they will be denied in honorable
- > Estonian citizenship as being non-ethnic Estonians,
- > then they will be called "occupiers" and finally
- > will be asked to leave.
-
-
- Here you only reveal that you have not or you will not grasp
- anything about the Estonian citizenship issue.
-
- Some of the people (if not the majority) of the Petsherians are
- Estonian citizens, because one of their (grand)parents has been
- an Estonian citizen. According to the existing citizenship
- legislation there should be masses of Russian speaking Estonian
- citizens in Petserimaa/Petshora. But this is no reason to change
- borders, there will be thousands of Russian citizens in Tallinn,
- Eastern Virumaa and Narva in the near future. There will be mixed
- citizenries in Estonia and Russia - welcome to Europe!
-
- The Russian and Estonian speaking Petsherians in Petserimaa/Petshora
- that are Estonian citizens will remain Estonian citizens.
- According to the Constitution:
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- Art.8. No person that has acquired the Estonian citizenship by birth
- may be deprived of it.
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Somebody can "ask" them to leave but no one can force them to it.
- According to the Constitution:
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- Art.36. No Estonian citizen may be deported from Estonia or
- prevented from settling in Estonia.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Tens of thousands Estonians were deported during the forties and
- fifties. They have had enough of it. It's totally other people that
- have deported the Estonians and currently keep up speaking about
- deportations. It's their tradition.
-
-
- with best regards
- the observer
- Tapani Hietaniemi, Universitas Helsingiensis
- urbs fennorum
-