Immigrants from former USSR

I allways wondered what are the main courses of disagreements between the locals and the newcomers in the baltic states.I read a lot of news and i like history..so well here are some.I wont say Russians because many are form ukraine,belarus and caucasus etc..

1. Demographical catastrophy in Latvia and Estonia
2. The crimes of soviet regime which russia tryes to denie
3. Cult of the great War
4. The anger of the defeat(loss of independence)
5. New ppl from former Ussr dont feel like they are from home here
6. Different minds and views.
7. Different sources of informations.

add some please and if ya have some ideas to solve theese problems..post please.

More intencive dialog, at least in Estonia we need more of that.
Another thing is media, russian media is different, they should be mixed somhow, so russians could also understand estonians, via versa also.
So part of estonian and russian journalists should be swiched in media organisations

Kaspar wrote:

More intencive dialog, at least in Estonia we need more of that.
Another thing is media, russian media is different, they should be mixed somhow, so russians could also understand estonians, via versa also.
So part of estonian and russian journalists should be swiched in media organisations

same problem with media and russians here in finland too..
they come here and dont even try to integrate to the society.. they hang in own groups, watch only russian tv channels / radio, they refuse to learn finnish etc.. and then they cry becouse they cant have citizenship or becouse rest of the world doesnt go like they want it to be...

so whats the reason, arrogance, russiasism, stupidity?

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they come here and dont even try to integrate to the society.. they hang in own groups, watch only russian tv channels / radio, they refuse to learn finnish etc.. and then they cry becouse they cant have citizenship or becouse rest of the world doesnt go like they want it to be...

so true. As someone recently said, they are not used to beeng 'minority' in a society, therefor they try desperetly to hang on to the big motherland identity.
But lets face it, you shouldnt bring your own rules to someone else'e home. ANd I've has several discussions over it here in USA.

As I've always said, citizenship is not something anyone should get. it's something you have to earn. You have to respect the locals. You have to learn their language. You have to respect the laws. I wouldn't give citizenship to any illegals. I'm sorry but every country has enough criminals, no need to bring them in from other countrys.

I read about this topic but I want to hear it from people living there:
What are the criterias of getting the citizenship in Estonia, then in Latvia, and in Lithuania? I guess it is different in each.

language test, maybe some kind of test about knowledge of Estonia or something. I dont know, but i know that they are alot eazyer than in other countries

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What are the criterias of getting the citizenship in Estonia, then in Latvia, and in Lithuania? I guess it is different in each.

everybody has to speak Estonian + sth like swear loyalty to Estonian country.

Okey, and what do you think, what amont of the Russian population has citizenship?

Dunno. Not all of them anyway.

Kiskun wrote:

Okey, and what do you think, what amont of the Russian population has citizenship?

30% I think... Not sure, maybe it was 30% who are without one.

Hypno wrote:

Kiskun wrote:

Okey, and what do you think, what amont of the Russian population has citizenship?

30% I think... Not sure, maybe it was 30% who are without one.

Hmm

if 30% is correct then those 30% doesnt have citizenship