Leaders deny bending to Amnesty tongue-clicking

Feb 14, 2007
By Joel Alas

TALLINN - Two months after rejecting a highly critical Amnesty Inter- national report on language discrimination, the Estonian government has adopted one of its key recommendations. On Feb. 8 the government moved to clarify the rights of people to communicate with officials in a minority language –- namely Russian -– in certain regions.The move was one recommendation given to the government by Amnesty International in its report “Linguistic Minorities in Estonia: Discrimination Must End,” rele ...

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