Abstract:This article argues that the geographically dispersed distribution of the minorities in the Baltic republics
(apart from the Poles in Lithuania and the Russians in Northeast Estonia) constitutes an objective obstacle to provision of
territorially based minority rights. However, the potential alternatives to the territorial principle are also rarely adopted. The
cultural autonomy model in Estonia and Latvia failed to be implemented in practice, while threshold rules (in respect of
topographi… Show more
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