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National Radicalization in Estonia: Legislation on Citizenship and Related Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Peet Kask
Peet Kask*
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Academy of Sciences, Tallinn (Estonia)
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There is certainly some sound logic in the observation by Trivimi Velliste, the former Foreign Minister of Estonia: “The safer Estonians feel about their independence, the more convinced they are that no one will enslave them again [and] the more likelihood they will be more generous [about Russians in Estonia].” The sad conclusion of this article is, however, that the gain of Estonians’ security has not given way to a spirit of generosity but to a more restrictive and irrational citizenship policy.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , Fall 1994 , pp. 379 - 391
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Copyright © 1994 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR 

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