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The paper focuses on the problem of Russian-speaking minorities in the foreign policy of the Russian Federation on the example of Estonia as one of the Baltic states. The article contains the genesis and the concept of the policy of the Russian authorities towards these communities, and also discusses the issue of the presence, size of population and status of Russians in Estonia. The next section shows the dimensions of the cultural and the political use of Russian-speaking minority, and examples of such activities on the national and international level.