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Russian/Estonian bilingualism which requires that the holders of certain jobs be proficient in
Estonian in addition to Russian. The Act impacted those who were employed in positions that involve communication with the public or subordinates in state administration and in most cases required an elementary level of knowledge of around 800 words, impacting about 12% of the Russian speaking population. The Language Inspectorate was thus established to supervise the implementation of the Language Act. Later, new Language Acts were adopted, in 1995 and 2011.
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recommendation to establish a monitoring mechanism for the work of the
Language Inspectorate, and recommended "regular consultation with representatives of Russian-speaking minorities on the work of the Language Inspectorate in order to improve the manner in which it is perceived by members of this group".
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has noted that "it appears that no system has been put in place to monitor the
Language Inspectorate's implementation of the Law on Language" and that "the Language Inspectorate does not appear to take into account regional specificities when applying the Language Law". In 2010, ECRI has repeated the
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states, to facilitate the republic's expectation that people offering services to the public should speak
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minority language within the country. Due to the increasing restrictions upon the public use of the
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