Its sad that there is tension between the various ethnic groups margus, Has anything been resolved re the memorial?
There isn't any tension. It's always more contrast looking everything from foreign soil. It's the same like I also might think it's very sad you discriminate muslims and other minority in the UK etc.
On the memorial relocation those who came to protest and to clash and to rob 70% of them were with criminal background organized there some part by local Russian embassy (at least most of proof opts there). Mostly russian speaking person. But they along with those who actually came to protest in a civilized way made 1-2% out of the local russian population, the rest stayed home.
Russians aren't coherent russians, like there aren't any coherent estonians who say they're fully estonians. You can't define the definition "russian" or "estonian" here actually.
There're very different type of them, some extremists, but most are civilized people (who mostly stayed home too).
Those clashing and robbing criminals did created temporary tension between us. Kremlin's main target was to cut any dialog we have between local russians and estonians. But it didn't work out for them as they'd wanted it.
A (historically) educated local russian says "I'm russian but my homeland is Estonia". At the current moment tension exist only for those uneducated russians who are in the grasp of the Russian TV and Radio media, that is basically 100% under Kremlin's hand and basically turns everything into propaganda they can use for their own good.
Our tiny less than 1 million same language speaking country media never can compete with 100+ million country's media in propaganda war. But I think the recent relocation has opened the gate to boost the connection between us (local russians and estonias) to stand against the Russian propaganda, it has boosted the local russians integration into our society too, basically quite the opposite effect Kremlin wanted.
Like with any this kind of event - it also has temporary boosted the extremists in both sides, but they make a non existant small amount of the population and they just create useless arrogant noise.
Etc etc., lot of things happened and didn't happend.
I can't write the situation with few words here. There are always extremists and propaganda making lot of noise that makes you think the situation is so bad. From ethnical point of view I can tell you it isn't. Search around CNN or BBC for more objective rating about the stuff we had going on here during and shortly after the relocation.
And don't be sad.
)
,
