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🎙Read excerpts from the statement of Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE A.Volgarev «On yet another acts of discrimination against the Russian and Russian-speaking population in the Republic of Estonia» (meeting of the OSCE PC, 11.09.2025) 🇪🇪 We have to draw attention to Tallinn’s ongoing violations of its obligations in the field of democratic freedoms and human rights, including with respect to national minorities. For many years, Estonian authorities have consistently pursued a discriminatory policy aimed at eliminating the ethnic, linguistic, and national diversity of the country’s population. History is being cynically rewritten, and everything related to Russia is being erased. The glorification of Nazis and their collaborators, as well as the desecration of monuments and graves of Red Army liberators, have become an everyday reality for this Baltic republic 🔻We have repeatedly pointed out the authorities’ relentless attempts to purge the public space of any alternative viewpoints. “Undesirable” journalists, activists, and public figures are targeted. Persecution of so-called non-citizens is only intensifying. Clearly inspired by the criminal practices of the Kiev regime, Estonian authorities continue their war against canonical Orthodoxy. All efforts are directed toward the legislative ban of the Estonian Orthodox Church’s activities. It matters little that this contradicts a range of Tallinn’s international legal obligations, including within the framework of the OSCE 🔻Nowdays, on the path to “erasing everything Russian,” the authorities have targeted the Russian Cultural Center in Tallinn. In June 2025, Tallinn city council members made a controversial decision to transfer the Russian Cultural Center (RCC) to the “Culture Cauldron” foundation under the name “Mere Cultural Center.” These hasty actions were taken without considering the opinions of the Russian-speaking population. There are well-founded concerns that such moves by local authorities will lead to the prohibition of Russian-language clubs and activities, as well as the “collapse” of the cultural space for Russian and Russian-speaking residents 🔻One might ask, how could the RCC have “displeased” Estonia? After all, it is not just a concert and exhibition venue but a cultural hub in the broadest sense, hosting major events since the 1990s, such as Slavic song and dance festivals, Slavic literacy days, Estonian peoples’ days, and numerous vocal and dance festivals and competitions. However, in the distorted imagination of Russophobes, things are seen differently. Tallinn’s actions align with the ongoing Estonization of society and the “cancel culture” targeting everything Russian. This includes labeling the RCC as a supposed symbol of Soviet “occupation,” attaching discriminatory stigmas to it