Russian students face new Estonian-language classes

Sep 05, 2007
By Joel Alas

TALLINN - Russian-speaking students returned to school on Sept. 3 to face new Estonian-language classes as part of a gradual reform of the education system. But education authorities were quick to point out that the reforms were far from a broad scale imposition of the Estonian language upon the Russian minority. They amount to a mere one hour of tuition per week, affect just 34 schools, and are only applied to students in the tenth grade. By the year 2011, 60 percent of tenth-grade subjects a ...

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