NYTIMES/ CLIFFORD J. LEVY/ ADDITIONAL NPR VERSION:
About 100,000 people, most of them ethnic Russians, are stateless in Estonia, or about 7.5% of 1.35 million people. They are even described as "aliens" in their passports. Estonia's citizenship policy is a response to Stalin's occupation. Like neighboring Latvia, Estonia has granted citizenship ONLY to people and their descendants, who had it before the Soviet's took over.
FOR ANOTHER TAKE ON SUBJECT, SEE 23 AUG VERSION ON NPR 7:52 BY Reporter David Greene with Audio and Transcript:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129333023
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