ABSTRACT
In the 1934 population census 88 per cent were Estonians, 8.2 per cent Russians, 1.7 per cent Germans, 0.7 per cent Swedes and 0.4 per cent Jews (Henn-Juri Uibopuu, The World Today, June 1992, p. 109). The 1989 census revealed that 61.5 per cent of the population of 1.6 million were Estonians, 30.3 per cent were Russians and 3.1 per cent were Ukrainians (Gwiazda 1994: 77). Only 14 per cent of Russians have mastered the Estonian language (p. 79).
