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(Reuters) - Russia signaled concern on Wednesday at Estonia's treatment of its large ethnic Russian minority, comparing language policy in the Baltic state with what it said was a call in Ukraine to prevent the use of Russian.
Russia has defended its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula by arguing it has the right to protect Russian-speakers outside its borders, so the reference to linguistic tensions in another former Soviet republic comes at a highly sensitive moment.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/19/us-russia-estonia-idUSBREA2I1J620140319
Response to Nuclear Unicorn (Original post)
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moondust
(20,006 posts)If you don't like it where you are then move back to Russia.
EOM
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)I guess we should watch for submarines in the bay.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)to start a protest, or if this means something more. He may be trying to play the nice guy role. Convince Russians that he is willing to take on NATO to protect ethnic Russians in other countries, only to pull back and say "No, I'm not going to do that. That's not the kind of guy I am. I only went into Crimea because I had to."
He may just be screwing with NATO countries. We'll likely have to prepare for something, and that preparation will distract us from other foreign policy issues and Crimea. I also think Crimea and this announcement has a little to do with the fact that he's lost control of Assad in Syria. Syria clearly isn't meeting it's chemical weapon surrender dates and that would have fallen on Putin to correct.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)the sentiment on Russian communities may soon become, "Russians go home." Nobody is going to want Russians living anywhere near them if Putin is going to use them as an excuse for saber-rattling and outright invasion. That in turn will only put more pressure on Putin to make good on his word.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)JI7
(89,264 posts)texshelters
(1,979 posts)for it is directly from the Putin's playbook of lies?
Putin was looking for an excuse; the loss of his ally Yanukovich was good enough from him, even if some Neo-Nazis weren't involved in the new government.
I feel sorry for every day Ukrainians who have to live with fascists and autocrats like Putin.
PTxS
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)And the body of OP is the evidence to that effect.
I apologize for any confusion.