Language cops, parties clash over campaign ads

  • 1999-09-23
  • By Tricia Cornell
TALLINN - Estonia's language board ordered a Tallinn tram fleet to remove a political advertisement printed in both Estonian and Russian from the exterior of a tram car.The ad, the language board said, violates an election law that requires outside advertising to be printed in Estonian and only Estonian.The ad was placed by the People's Trust, an electoral alliance that comprises several of Estonia's Russian parties. After the tram fleet removed the advertisement, the People's Trust submitted a formal complaint against the language board to the Tallinn Administrative Court.The Estonian lang...
 
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