In Estonia, a part of Russia for centuries and independent only since about 20 years and where a significant percentage of the population is Russian, and logically speaking Russian, Estonian separatists ,called nationalist, inspected companies examining the knowledge of Estonian (a language with great future) and fine and punishes those who do not speak Estonian properly.
This happens now in Europe within the EU and, of course, the European Union looks away.
Language Inspectorate (Estonia)
Language Inspectorate ( est. Keeleinspektsioon ) - Service consisting under the control of the Ministry of Education
and Science of the Republic of
Estonia . The aim
of the Language Inspectorate is the supervision of the implementation of the language law and
other legal acts regulating the knowledge and use of the state language. Office
provided significant rights on the administrative impact on a wide range of
state and public organizations, to private entities and individuals.
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5 Notes
History
History of the
Language Inspectorate dates back to 23 on November 1990 the year when the State Chancellery
in the control of
the Estonian SSR was created by the State Department on
matters of language , whose main task was to implement the language
policy and the development of legal acts on the basis and in pursuance of the
language law in 1989 .
Since 1995 Language Department was
transferred to the sphere of the Ministry of Education, and in 1998 was reorganized into the Language
Inspectorate .
In 1995 he was
appointed Director General of Inspection Ilmar Tomusk.
The objectives, powers and techniques
According to the
approved 13 June 2002 the year Resolution № 55 Minister of
Education, "Regulations on the Language Inspectorate" Language
Inspectorate is acting under the control of the Ministry of Education by a
government agency, whose main tasks consist in the exercise of state
supervision and the use of state coercion on the bases and to the extent
provided by law .
As stated on the
website of the Language Inspectorate, its main task is
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to ensure fair and independent oversight of
compliance with the law on language, emanating from the linguistic rights of
both Estonians and representatives of national minorities.
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The competence of
the inspection includes:
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supervise the
execution of the requirements for language use in proceedings of public
authorities and local governments, in the service sector, trade and health
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supervision of
compliance with the official use of literary language norm
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monitor the
implementation of the requirements for knowledge of the state language
employees are responsible for knowing his duty.
To achieve these
goals before the inspection, inspectors shall have the right to use various
administrative measures from warnings to a very significant fines levied from
the organizations and individuals, as well as instructions to government
agencies and private companies to dismiss workers.
Activities and evaluation
The most famous [2] [3] [4] of the work of the Language
Inspectorate is to carry out regular inspections in various institutions, where
there is a significant number of Russian-speaking employees, formally obliged
to know and use the Estonian language (such
are, for example, a teacher of the Russian language in Russian schools or
teachers in Russian kindergartens [4] ).
It is widely
believed the Language Inspectorate as a repressive organ [5] , the main function of which is
the constant pressure on the Russian-speaking part of Estonian society [6] . International
organization Amnesty International described
the agency as " repressive body, which prevents the spread of
human rights " [5] . Among the Russian part
of the Estonian population is widespread inspection unofficial name - Language
Inquisition [3] [4] [7] [8] .
In the published
March 2, 2010 report of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance it
noted that according to some representatives of the Russian minority in
Estonia, Language Inspectorate enjoys absolute power. The Commission
recommended the establishment of a monitoring mechanism for the inspection
activities and to consult regularly on these activities to the representatives
of the Russian-speaking minorities, in order to improve their relations to the
inspection [9] .
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination in its decision on the situation in Estonia,
issued August 27, 2010, recommended that the authorities review the role of the
Estonian Language Inspectorate and abandon the punitive approach to language
policy [10] .
Activities
Inspectorate enjoys the approval and support of the Estonian nationalists [5] .
references
notes
8. ↑ Delfi.ee: UN Special Rapporteur called on Estonia to make Russian a
state language , 28 September 2007
9. ↑ European
Commission against Racism and Intolerance: ECRI the REPORT the ON ESTONIA (Fourth to monitoring
cycle) § 23-§ 24, pp. 14-15 (Eng.)
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