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Estonia's Russian speakers alienated from state

Estonia's Russian-speaking population is growing increasingly alienated from the Estonian state as a political institution. A fresh study by Tallinn University shows that 31% of Russian speakers do not trust the police, while 60% of Estonian speakers do. Trust in the courts stands at 29% among Russian speakers and at 40% among Estonian speakers. Unsurprisingly, trust in the government and the parliament is the lowest: only 9% of Russian speakers and 32% of Estonian speakers trust the government, while 7% of Russian speakers and 18% of Estonian speakers trust the parliament.

At the same time, willingness to apply for Estonian citizenship has fallen drastically among the country's non-citizen population, who are mostly Russian speakers. In 2005, as many as 74% of non-citizens wanted to obtain Estonian citizenship, whereas in 2010, the figure was just 33%. In 2005, only 7% of non-citizens said they did not want to be citizens of any state, while in 2010, the figure was as high as 40%. Estonia has one of the highest proportions of non-citizen residents in the European Union, with 7.5% of the country's total population having no citizenship whatsoever.

http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/education/?doc=31621

Filed under: Estonia Integration Minority Study
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