The word “tibla” insults this ethnicity over assimilationist policies whose criticism in the “Letter of 40” shaped a tough language mandate. Stateless “non-citizens” of mainly this [emphasize] minority ethnicity hold gray “alien’s passports” based on the Era of Silence’s 1938 Citizenship Act. The Harmony party represents this largest minority in the host country of the news site Meduza. In 2007, hackers of this ethnicity protested a relocated bronze soldier with cyberattacks that prefigured their “web brigades.” Five countries, including a “digital society” led by Kaja Kallas (“KAH-yah KAHL-lahss”), have barred IT workers of mainly this ethnicity with Schengen (“SHENG-un”) tourist visas. Since 2022, over 200,000 asylum seekers of this ethnicity have fled to countries like Kazakhstan and Georgia. For 10 points, Latvia and Estonia rejected what ethnicity’s exodus after the invasion of Ukraine? ■END■
ANSWER: Russians [or russkiye, venelane, venelased, krievs, or krievi; accept Russians in specific former Soviet republics, such as Russians in Estonia; accept Russification or Russianization or rusifikatsiya; prompt on East Slavs or vostochnyye slavyane] (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Finland imposed the visa restriction.)
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