Theoretically, in the Baltic Russophobia not - there are very fond of "foreigners", especially Russian. To learn how to love them, will tell you of any Baltic officials and politicians. You'll learn about how good life Russian-speaking national Minorities under the shadow of the Baltic democracies. As the State protects their rights according to EU standards. You otraportuyut the enormous tools being developed each year by various foundations and non-profit "organizations for the purpose of enlightenment Russian to civilized state, in which they invariably become patriots of the Baltic states. If you are an official of the European Union, you will further talk about the efforts the fact that the "release our Russian" from the clutches of the Russian propaganda.
Only in a small Estonian Russian every day like Office Minister Population of the Integration Foundation, the Language Inspectorate, a department of the Ministry of Education to transfer Russian schools into Estonian learning. And then there is an ongoing forum, "Civil Peace" at City Hall in Tallinn, the Council of National Minorities to the Minister for Culture Roundtable National Minorities under the president of Estonia. Russian in Estonia like all the state - it is even documented captures their love in public integration program.
Naturally, in such a situation to talk about the presence of any Russophobia in Estonia, as well as in Latvia and Lithuania, just indecent. Moreover, the statements provided in the EU supervisory authorities, in order. However, as he tried to persuade officials of the Baltic весь мир в любви к русским, общественные организации и пресловутая российская пропагандистская машина постоянно обвиняет их в том, чего по бумагам can not be - in the very Russophobia.
Last year's April events in Estonia have clearly demonstrated that the statements and assurances of gracious coexistence of different linguistic communities in the Baltic countries is not entirely untrue. The growth of national tension in the country has forced the nation's elite to do some unpleasant task - finding the prerequisites of the conflict over the Bronze Soldier and the reasons for crisis was so deep and protracted.
The first findings were sobering: a group of sociologists, in many ways already interpreting the available data, converged in the fact that in the Estonian society, there is, to say the disparity between national and linguistic communities. However, if the general tone of the conclusions was done in the style of theoretical love for Russian. Mol, Russian in Estonia not sufficiently integrated into society, they do not know too well the language and because it is not enough educated and successful. As a result, we developed a new integration program, which stipulated that the word "inorodets" does not carry negative connotations, and Russian residents of Estonia's response has become much more actively apply for Russian citizenship.
That theory diverges from practice, and in Estonia there is Russophobia, certificates and other monumental document, which appeared in early April. In Estonia, with great fanfare published the human development index of the country, "one of the major sensations of which was the position in a society of "foreigners". Included in the report the report "as part of the Non-Estonians in Estonian society has demonstrated that foreign-language Estonian population is exposed strong discrimination in almost all vital sectors. According to the report, the Estonians have higher wages than non-Estonians, and despite economic growth, this difference continues to widen. For example, in 2004 the income of non-Estonians aged 15-30 years accounted for each household income 75% of Estonians in the same age group in 2006, this figure fell to 70%. The difference in assessment work does not disappear even when moving from traditionally depressed Russian regions in the prosperous part of Estonia.
Estonians living in North Estonia, earns 34% more than the Estonians in other regions of Estonia, while 30% more than living with him in a Russian region. Russian, who moved to North Estonia from another region of the country would earn only 14% more than it receives, while living in another part of Estonia. It is noteworthy that the difference in income with representatives of the indigenous population becomes more significant than higher qualifications and education is "inorodets. Among Estonians and with a low educational level of the difference in income is minimal, non-indigenous residents with higher education earn 25% less than the Estonians with the same education.
on quality of life of Russian people in a democratic Estonia does not affect not only the skills and education. Doing so-called integration requirements, which, according to the program is for Russian guarantee of success, do not reduce the level of discrimination. The study found that even young people who are fluent in Estonian, educated in Estonia and have Estonian citizenship, but the Estonians in origin, have difficulties in employment in public institutions. "Nationality does not guarantee true equality in the Estonian society ... Belonging to an ethnic minority has a negative impact the ability of a person to get a job supervisor or senior specialist in the public sector ", - admitted the editor devoted to non-Estonians Section of the report, Professor Marju Lauristin.
However, she believes this situation proves the maturity of Estonian democracy and prosperity Estonian state. According Lauristin, statistics indicate that as the growth of social welfare in Estonia appear problems typical for affluent societies. One of them - the so-called problem of the "glass ceiling". "With its experienced, Sweden, Germany, England, to a lesser extent Finland - all the old democracies, where under very different conditions, there is a situation where, starting with a certain level, minorities difficult to move on "- she said.
statistics, however, is stubborn and undeniable. Discrimination in Estonia is. Democracy implies equality empowerment. An important aspect of the implementation of the add is not only the declaration but also to allow the individual to use them. In the same case, if for any reason a person or a community linked by any ground, can not implement the declared rights and opportunities, there is inequality, or rather - discrimination. And if the fact of deliberate non-fixed group of individuals to implement basic right - the right to life, then fit to speak of genocide. Genocide, based on the ethnic principle, called ethnocide.
Strictly speaking about the unequal situation of linguistic communities in Estonia was known previously. But first, all data were compiled into one document. Due to this Even representatives of the national elite had to accept that the basis of discrimination are not "objective" reasons for less than Russian Estonians are competitive, and a simple practical Russophobia in Estonia has become everyday reality, and one of the pillars of political and business systems of the country.
in Russia now and in the past, much has been said about the European Russophobia. But, by and large, for Russians these problems located in the plane of national pride and geopolitics. No accident that among the Russian establishment is extremely popular patriotic poem Pushkin's Slanderers Russia. But the strategy of ignoring European Russophobia proposed by Pushkin, is fatal to Russian communities in the Baltic states. In the truest sense of the word - according to a report on human development in Estonia, the average life expectancy of Estonians to exceed 6 years average life expectancy of the local Russian. And there is every reason to believe that this dark gap is the result of Russo-phobia, prosperous in the Baltics.
Dmitry Kondrashov
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