The Moscow Times article offers some interesting thoughts regarding the impact of the Tallinn riots on the Russian internal politics as well as the Russian-speaking population in the two Baltic States.
For the Russian-speaking population in Estonia and Latvia, this is only the latest in a string of events that offers up a lesson they would be better off learning now: They can expect no real help from anyone but themselves. Official Russia is currently neither their friend nor their ally. What would you expect from a country with such disdain and indifference for its own citizens? And how can you expect Russians to pay those politicians back any other way than in kind?
And helping themselves they must: not by staging -protests- media show stints, but by encouraging and following through with naturalization…
It is a lesson to learn for pro-Russian nationalist groups if they want to be involved in a political process. And that’s a big if.
