Website to Introduce Estonian History to Russians
By the end of 2011, nonprofit initiative group Tribune will launch a website, devoted entirely to Estonian history written in Russian.
The organization was essentially created for publishing an online book on the events and outstanding Russian figures who helped Estonia to fight the Bolsheviks and the German Landeswehr's offensives during the Estonian War of Indepenance (1918-1920).
The main objective of the project is to launch a website, which would inform the readers about Estonian history in the Russian language, in order to create better preconditions for a common identity and raise the Russian-speaking community's awareness of the historic ties the two nations have, Rodion Denissov, chairman of the organization told Eesti Päevaleht.
The new website will publish photo and video material and texts on Estonian history and symbols, as well as introduce the local public figures and render Russian translations of the most heartfelt patriotic speeches by the nation's leaders.
"We will try to make it so that both the current and future generations, who have little information but desire to obtain more, will have the opportunity," said Denissov.
The website's creators hope that the texts published will come in handy as supplementary course material in upper and lower secondary schools' history and civic education classes as well as in tertiary education.
Ingrid Teesalu