Mayor Katri Raik of Narva, a city on the Russian border where some 30 percent of the population are Russian citizens, expresses her dismay in Eesti Päevaleht:
“The country is split in two: you Estonians and us Russians, whom the Estonians don’t trust. … Integration as we knew it has truly failed. It’s not so much the Russian citizens who are offended – although they are offended too – but the Estonian citizens whose mother tongue is Russian. Everyone who lives in Narva has Russian citizens or stateless persons in their family or extended family. Why is my mother-in-law not good enough for Estonia? Why does my father, who has lived and worked here all his life and adhered to the law, not fit in? … These are the questions the Mayor of Narva must answer, even if she has no answer.”