A plan of the Estonian Interior Ministry, after which it will be easier to better integrate into society people with Russian names to estnifizieren this provides, at present for discussion. According to a report of postimees.ee, the plan of the Ministry to change the name of the law such that the desired integration is accepted as a reason for a name change. As an example in the article, the football player Konstantin Kolbassenko called, who changed his name to Konstantin Nahke. had a similar campaign in Estonia, where in the 1930's, when the majority of German surnames were converted into Estonian.
The plan met with immediate criticism. In a statement, the Ministry of Population, cited on postimees.ee, states: "The Estnifizierung of names is certainly no part of integration policy. The man with an Estonian surname, it does not automatically integrated into society. "Next is the issue of name changes as a" cosmetic change ", while integration is an" internal Process "should be.
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