More Estonian lessons for the Russian minority

A year after the riots over the removal of a Soviet war monument in Estonia, Jevgenia Garanza, a journalist of Russian origin, calls for the Russian minority to increase its integration efforts, above all regarding language: "The problem is not the children but the teachers. We need a new curriculum with more Estonian language lessons and a new generation of teachers able to teach in Estonian at Russian schools. But the state prefers to waste time and money on monitoring the teachers instead. A newspaper should not lower itself to the level of its most stupid readers and then complain that these readers are hindering its activities. By the same token, a state should not be more passive than its most passive (non-)citizens and then complain that the latter are a threat to its security and existence."

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