Strikers in Estonia Return to Work as Talks Are OKd
Thousands of striking Russians went back to work Friday in Estonia as their representatives began talks with a government commission set up to consider complaints that new Estonian laws infringe on their voting rights.
“We are working during the talks,” said Gennady Korol, a strike committee spokesman at the Tallinn shipyard.
Soviet television said the Russians agreed to return to work after a commission chaired by Estonian President Arnold Ruutel was set up to examine their demands.
The Russian workers went on strike a week ago to protest a law requiring many of them to learn to speak Estonian, and another demanding two years’ residency to vote and at least five years’ residency to stand for office.
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