TALLINN. Nov 3 (Interfax) - The head of an association of Russian speakers living in Estonia said on Wednesday that he had filed a lawsuit against an Estonian Internet portal, accusing it of stirring ethnic strife.

"I have filed a suit for the defense of my own honor and dignity and of those of the entire Russian-speaking population of Estonia, and demand public apologies," Vladimir Lebedev told Interfax.

On October 22, the DELFI website carried an article that, citing a survey by a prison official, described a typical Estonian murderer as "a woman aged between 24 and 30 who is sane, uneducated and unemployed, has a child, is an (ethnic) Russian and is provoked into murder by violence in the family."

"The article in DELFI includes all (ethnic) Russian women in Estonia among potential murderers. I not only feel insulted because the entire Russian-speaking population of the country has been insulted, but I also take it as a personal insult," Lebedev said.

"I accuse DELFI of giving the article a clearly racist headline and having disseminated it among many thousands of readers," he said.

"When any specific negative fact is linked to ethnicity, it becomes an instance of Nazism and cannot be forgiven," he said.

He said he had supplemented the suit with Estonian-language comments on the article that threatened violence against ethnic Russians and proposed deporting them.

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