UNDEMOCRATIC BEHAVIOR

  • 1999-09-23
Isn't it enough that roughly 25 percent of Estonia's 1.4 million inhabitants cannot vote because they do not hold Estonian passports? Now, as campaigns for the Oct. 17 local elections heat up, Estonia's National Language Board is seeing to it that at least as many permanent residents be denied information about the forthcoming polls.The removal of a political advertisement printed in Russian was a vindictive act that has no place in a country that fancies itself a democracy. The ad, which was also printed in Estonian, was placed by the People's Trust, an election alliance that comprises a n...
 
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