Racial discrimination in renting apartments has been turning into a critical problem for expats living in Tallinn, Toyon Mas, a master’s student at the University of Tartu, writes. The question has been raised after a post made by one of the potential foreign tenants from Cameroon in a Facebook group …
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The head of the traffic department at the Tallinn Transport Board appeared to poke fun at black people, cheered on by the city’s mayor, Taavi Aas, and deputy mayor, Aivar Riisalu – all wittingly or unwittingly engaging in a racist practice. It has emerged that during the Tallinn city government’s …
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In the depths of the Estonian winter, “The Midwinter Night’s Dream: Plan B”, a theatre festival in Tallinn, dissects racism, social injustice and religious fanaticism with a specially curated programme of four internationally renowned productions. Can theatre be a vehicle for social change? As public discourse becomes more polarised in …
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Intolerance isn’t growing, but it’s getting bolder in Estonia. It’s time for the rest of us to speak up, writes Tallinn-based translator Adam Cullen. You never really know what you’re going to encounter any time you depart the familiar, yet claustrophobic, confines of Edgar’s Dominion and venture into what lies …
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What angers me the most about what happened to me last Saturday evening in Tallinn is that it was all a lie. It’s not that the middle-aged swastika-tattooed Estonian man who told my friends and I from his table at a restaurant, “Estonia is for Whites only, go to your country”, …
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Recently, Estonia started to work harder on strengthening its talent pool by trying to make it more appealing for foreigners to come and work in Estonia. But what’s peculiar about this is the fact that whenever you mention the issue of accepting immigrants – no matter why they would consider coming …
In Estonia, the European migrant/refugee crisis has resonated particularly strongly. This is somewhat surprising at the first glance, but actually quite expected, because it calls upon issues that are extremely important, but with which Estonia at the same time struggles. Here I underline the reasons why. 1. The acceptance of liberal democratic (or …