‘I’m always looking over my shoulder’: anxiety among Estonia’s Russians

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In Tallinn, the government’s strong support for sanctions against Russia is leading to tension and distrust

Hanging out her washing on the terrace of her ground-floor flat in the shadow of Lasnamäe’s church, one 39-year-old mother of a three-year-old and five-year-old, who declined to give her name, said she was born in Tallinn but identified as Russian. “I better be careful what I say because they will deport me,” she said.

The woman had heard false claims that the Estonian government had stopped free meals for children in Russian-language schools. “I don’t know if it is true, but it could be true,” she insisted. There had been concerns about unrest. The relocation of a statue known as the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn in April 2007 led to two nights of rioting in the capital’s old town, during which a Russian protester was killed.

Katri Raik, a former government minister who has been mayor of Narva since 2020, said there was genuine fear in the Russian community that the government to which the government needed to be sensitive.

 

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