Savisaar shames motherland with ‘unpatriotic words’

May 03, 2006
Staff and wire reports

TALLINN - Center Party Chairman Edgar Savisaar upset both a coalition partner and the opposition when he voiced his brash opinion of Estonia’s social development model and the disparity between the have and have-nots. “Tallinn looks good indeed, but there are areas in Estonia that are badly lagging in terms of development and where poverty rules,” Savisaar was quoted as saying during a meeting with Irish Ambassador Noel Kilkenny on April 28. “In the course of the reforms, the gap ...

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