4 February 2003 TALLINN, Estonia (RFE/RL)–The practice of changing names has gained more and more popularity in Estonia. Statistics released by the Interior Ministry reveal that last year the number of people changing their names in Estonia rose for the first time to over a thousand cases. In the last three years changing names has gathered popularity in areas where […]

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