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About a third of Estonian residents consider themselves Russians and nothing else

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About a third of Estonian residents consider themselves Russians and nothing else


08.06.2023


Estonia. Tallinn. Photo credit: Daryna Hubko / youtube.com

28% of Russians living in Estonia consider themselves Russians and nothing else, a poll conducted with the participation of the State Chancellery showed. According to the study, despite years of attempts by Tallinn to de-Russify the country, only 3% of Russians identified themselves as Estonians, Krasnaya Vesna news agency reports.

It is noted that about 2/3 of those surveyed said they consider themselves Estonian Russians, Russian-speaking Estonians, or equally Russian and Estonian. The fact that they consider themselves Russians and no one else was answered to a greater extent by Estonian residents who have Russian citizenship.

The Estonian authorities are doing a lot to assimilate Russians in their country. Among the measures taken are the displacement of the Russian language from all spheres of life and pressure on Russian-language education. The process of its destruction has been launched in the country.

In May, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Russians were being persecuted in Estonia. 

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