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Nation’s non-citizens flock to obtain Russian passports

Nov 05, 2008
By Jana Belugina

TALLINN - Within the last year, the number of people in Estonia who adopted Russian citizenship is double that of those who chose an Estonian passport. According to the official statistics, only 1,608 people became new citizens of Estonia, while the numbers of the Russian Embassy suggest there were as many as 3,700 new Russian citizens. A spokesman of the Russian Embassy, Maxim Kozlov, confirmed the figures: “Estonia is one of the leading places in the world in terms of adoption of Russian cit ...


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