Such a decision was taken on the day before at the Union's conference in the Estonian town of Narva.
"Delegates of the conference have adopted a declaration 'For Unity of Russia against Lawlessness', which proposes using various institutions of the European Union to defend the rights of Russian (or rather Russian-speaking) citizens residing outside Russia's boundaries," Mishin said.
According to him, meeting participants urged all parties and public organisations representing the interests of Estonia's Russian-speaking residents to forget their differences and come out in a united front at June 13 elections to the European parliament (on May 1, Estonia, just like nine other countries of Eastern and Central Europe, will officially become a EU member).
Delegates also suggested that all organisations of fellow-countrymen and citizens of Russia and Estonia should hold at the end of the year a unifying congress. As is believed in the Estonian Union, this congress may create a joint coordinating council with Russian-speaking citizens of Latvia and Lithuania to work out a common policy to protect the interests of Russian-speakers in the Baltic countries.
The Estonian Republican Union of Russian-Speaking Citizens unites regional organisations in the north-east of Estonia in the towns of Narva, Sillamae, Kohtla Jarve and also in Tallinn and Tartu.
