ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the content of the ownership and enterprise reforms and identify the rights and possibilities for Russians to participate in the new types of enterprises. However the law contained some indications that a distinction would be made between Estonians and Russians when privatization of the state sector took place. The priority purchase right of the workers’ collectives was not included in the Estonian legislation. The Law on Economic Borders which determined the border of the Estonian territory and therefore also the country’s economic and geographical scope in the reform process was adopted on 22 October 1990. Economic associations could be formed by individual persons and legal entities from Estonia, from the Soviet Union, and from other countries. The purpose of the law was to make it possible to create new and restore old peasant farms in the countryside in accordance with Estonian historical traditions and culture.
