World IN BRIEF : ESTONIA : 1st Free Post-Soviet Local Elections Held
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Estonians voted in the Baltic state’s first free post-Soviet local government elections, but the large Russian-speaking minority complained that they had been excluded from running. All people who have lived in Estonia for five years have voting rights, but only Estonian citizens can run for office. Russian speakers, who account for about 600,000 of the 1.6 million population, have complained that the republic’s “law on aliens” is discriminatory.
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