Rosyjska mniejszosc narodowa w procesie konsolidacji demokracji w Estonii
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Чернівецького національного університету імені Юрія Федьковича. Історія - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
The societies of all Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are strongly divided ethnically what influences the process of building a stabile democratic system in those states. It is significant that the Estonian society, the smallest of all Baltic States, consists of 25% of minorities of Russian background. The Large Russian minority is undoubtedly a factor influences the political situation in the country, what is more it creates huge special and political division. The other aspects are combined with intervention in this region. The Estonian government has consistently launched and introduced some integration programmes and their primary goal was to create a cohesion-built homogeneous society. Although the level of the Estonian language among the representatives of national minorities has been improving, yet there are many people who cannot communicate effectively because their language skills are not sufficient. Such a situation limits their chances on the labor market and lowers their social status. Despite of many antagonisms and social inequalities both Estonians and Russians manage to build a common national existence in independent Estonia. The question regarding the position and status of national minorities seems to be very important in the contemporary world. Russian minority in Estonia has a huge impact on political and democratic processes in the state thus creating a complex situation in the country. Although being the part of the society, Russianspeaking minority living on the territory of Estonia is recognized as a limiting factor of democratic processes consolidation. More than fifty years of Estonian membership in the Soviet Union resulted in many significant changes in the country; it was also a time of big migrations to Estonia that was considered to be large-scaled, from 1981 to 1991 more than 100.000 people decided to emigrate from Estonia due to the lack of the Estonian origin. Apart from this there were still huge numbers of Russian-speaking people who decided to stay in Estonia. Their number of those who were eager to be citizens of Estonia created new problems in the country. Today situation seems to be much more stable but there are still some doubts regarding their participation in the Estonian political system.
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Agata Wlodarska-Frykowska
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