Social Democrats are solid as a rock Published Postimees 17 February 2014 When I raised the issue of Russian language education to a young man I know, he took his glasses off, paused for a second, then he started to rant. He was talking so fast in English I couldn't take it all in. “If Russians want to live in Estonia they should learn our language and there could be no compromise” This was the gist of what he said. I haven't heard anybody shout like that about politics since the 1990s. Education funding has been in the news a lot lately. But of the three issues, the mergers of schools, the drying up for funding to private schools, and funding to the Russian language Vene Lyceum, it is clearly the third that causes most passion. So it was that the deputy mayor responsible for education, Mihhail Kõlvart, faced a vote of no confidence in the City council last week. He was always going to win. The Centre party have an absolute majority, and wha