Surgeon sacked after insulting Russian speaker

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Adam Mullett, Baltic Reports, September 3, 2009
A hospital in Kohtla-Järve, located in northeast Estonia, has fired an orthopedic surgeon after he threw a 14-year-old boy’s passport into a bin because the boy could not speak Estonian and answered questions in Russian.

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