RUSSIAN CITIZENS NOW A MAJORITY IN NORTHEASTERN ESTONIANCITY.

There are now more Russian citizens than Estonian citizens in Narva,Estonia’s citizenship department chief Andres Kollist told BNS May 19. He saidthat there are now 71,700 citizens of the Russian Federation in Estonia. Thatfigure is up from 50,000 a year ago. Kollist said that this situation reflectsMoscow’s desire to create “a Russian state within another state.” Earlier theRussian embassy in Tallinn had been slow to grant citizenship to ethnic Russians inEstonia who lacked Estonian citizenship, apparently because of concerns thatthose with Russian citizenship might return to Russia itself.

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