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'I'm A Nobody'
Tensions remain and are especially evident in the predominately Russian eastern edge of Estonia, near the Russian border, in working-class cities like Narva. Here, many people are part of what amounts to an underclass. Roughly 100,000 Estonian Russians, many concentrated in this region, carry a special gray passport, which labels them "aliens" -- legal, but not citizens of Estonia or anywhere.
Sergei Zavyalov, stands in Narva, Estonia, with Russia across the river behind him. The 26-year-old was born in Narva in 1984. When Estonia gained independence, ethnic Russians like him were generally not granted citizenship. Today, Zavyalov has a gray passport, which means he's an "alien" with no citizenship. As he puts it, "I'm a nobody in this country."
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They can't vote in national elections -- and that gray passport gives them trouble finding work.
"I'm a nobody in this country," said 26-year-old Sergei Zavyalov, whose family relocated to Estonia during Soviet times.
Zavyalov said that in his life, timing was everything. If he'd been born after Estonia became independent, he'd be a citizen.
But he was born earlier, in 1984. So he was not automatically granted citizenship. To become a citizen, he would have to pass a language exam. He said he's never had much interest and is determined to leave Estonia -- in part, he says, because Estonians still treat him as if he were an "occupier" of their country. As he put it, "We don't feel much love toward each other."
Zavyalov also never had Estonian language training in his public schools, which during his school years had classes taught mostly in Russian.
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