Why the Russian minorities in Latvia and Estonia aren't going to take it anymore.
A link to the Burn Baltics, Burn article by Mark Ames in the Exile magazine

Poland will veto Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) if Russia continues to restrict Polish meat imports.

Both Polish president Lech Kaczynski and trade representatives stated they were considering this move. Polish authorities, both increasingly bellicose and hysterical, keep up verbal assault on Russia while Russian government remains silent and seemingly ignores the latest wave of provocations.

Poland wants a common energy declaration on the part of the EU, which would be conditional and binding to all parties. Poland demands that the issue of energy supplies be made key condition to negotiations over any new treaty between EU and Russia.

Mikhail Deliagin, internationally renown economist and director of the Globalization Institute (Institute of Globalization Problems) speaks about Bronze Soldier, Russian speakers in the Baltics and official policies.

As Delfi reports, Latvian State Language Center is to double its efforts to punish use of Russian, to raise fines and to effect a two fold increase in the number of language inspectors deployed in combatting use of Russian language…

Under protection of NATO and EU, and with full backing of the United States Estonian democracy flourished. Here is an example of daily life in free Estonia. That’s a typical real estate ad in a location where some 30% of population is Russian .

Alar Pink the head of Tallinn-based Kalev confectionary company applied for registration of Pronkssodur (Bronze Soldier) and the image of the gravesite monument as trademark through his Mosaic venture. If trademark is granted, the now demolished gravesite memorial could be used for marketing of four distinct categories of products — from distilled spirits and beer to school supplies.

A selective democracy is hardly a democracy at all and a «state» where one third of population is disenfranchised on a whimsical technicality can hardly be considered either democratic or free. As I know both societies intimately well I can say with a degree of confidence that most Russians (or modern Americans, Austrians, French or Germans) cannot comprehend what it is like to be of wrong ethnicity and live under state tyranny in an ethnocracy. A friend of mine was born in Estonia from parents who were also born in Estonian SSR in the 1950s.

The Baltic port business, according to some sources, is handled by Russian entrepreneurs, Andrei Katkov and Evgenii Malov. In the 1990s they were releated to Kirishineftorgsintez chemical company and to its subsidiaries which exported petroleum products to the Baltic States through St. Petersburg. A reminder: President Putin was in charge of supervising foreign commerce in St. Petersburg city hall at the time. As Russian Focus magazine wrote in 2004, Messrs Malov and Katkov were well acquainted with Putin.

Recent events in Tallinn did not yet raise the question on the limits of  European hypocrisy which seems to be boundless. News of police assault against demonstrators reminded of reports from a warzone. It was indeed very much like war zone reportage. Brutal beatings of tens and hundreds, mass detentions in a facility that was so poignantly similar to a concentration camp did not get even slightest symbolical condemnation from the European Union officialdom or from America’s ever vigilant Department of State. In his time Victor Yanukovich got so scared tha the decided against employing force to disperse Orangist demonstrators, gripped with justified fear that the humanistic West would accuse him of all mortal sins. We have a saying that human blood’s color is the same all over. Well, it’s not so in the West.