The World - News from Sept. 11, 1988
Soviet Estonia’s Communist Party backed demands that Estonian replace Russian as the Baltic republic’s state language, the Tass news agency reported. It said approval was given by the party’s policy-making Central Committee in the republic, where a grass-roots movement is pushing for increased national autonomy. Estonia has absorbed a rising in-migration of ethnic Russians that Estonians see as a threat to their culture. Parliament must now vote on the issue.
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