World IN BRIEF : RUSSIA : Reprisals Against Estonia Threatened

Russia said it will take economic and political reprisals against Estonia for adopting a law that Moscow says discriminates against ethnic Russians living there. “Estonia has stepped out . . . on the road of apartheid since a third of its population have been declared aliens,” Foreign Minister Andrei V. Kozyrev declared, referring to about 600,000 Russians living in the Baltic state. Deputy Foreign Minister Vitaly I. Churkin said that a series of measures are being worked out that could affect Estonia’s trade relations with Russia and the withdrawal of former Soviet troops.