My friends were worried about the marching through the streets, the chanting, the flags and insignia, the lack of police ability to stop acts of violence against identifiable Russian institutions such as bank branches.
They have ceased caring about the results of elections because the events of the Maidan made it abundantly clear that the Right doesn't care much about them either. They have correctly concluded that elected officials in Ukraine hold power only as long as the marching Right sees its agenda followed. They have seen Tymoshenko win 12% of the popular vote despite her comments to the effect that Russian speaking Ukrainians should be nuked.
Did you know what happened to large numbers of the population of the Baltic states under the Nazis? Since the entire civilised world found the genocide perpetrated under the Nazis reprehensible and did not see fit to make allowances for context, maybe it is too much to hope that Baltic citizens would share that revulsion.
Here is how Estonia (not the worst offender among the Baltic states) treats its Russian speaking residents. I do not use the term citizens because some are denied citizenship:
'According to Amnesty International, linguistic minorities face discrimination in a number of areas, especially in employment and education. Migrants were exposed to harassment by state officials and attacks by extremist groups. Criminal investigations into allegations of excessive use of force by police were dismissed. Also Estonian security police, Kaitsepolitsei, made allegations against the Legal Information Centre for Human Rights (LICHR), which it claims is widely seen as an attempt to misrepresent the organization and to undermine its work.
According to Human Rights Watch report, 1993, the organisation did not find systematic, serious abuses of human rights in the area of citizenship. Non-citizens in Estonia were guaranteed basic rights under the Constitution of Estonia. However there were some problems concerning the successful integration of some who were permanent residents at the time Estonia gained independence.
The 2008 report of Special Rapporteur on racism to United Nations Human Rights Council noted the existence of political will by the Estonian State authorities to fight the expressions of racism and discrimination in Estonia.[10] According to the report, the representatives of the Russian speaking communities in Estonia saw the most important form of discrimination in Estonia is not ethnic, but rather language-based (Para. 56). The rapporteur expressed several recommendations including strengthening the Chancellor of Justice, facilitating granting citizenship to persons of undefined nationality and making language policy subject of a debate to elaborate strategies better reflecting the multilingual character of society.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) examines regular reports of the member States on how the rights are being implemented under Article 9 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. In its 2010 concluding observations the Committee noted some positive aspects, and raised concerns and made recommendations with regard to Estonia's compliance with the convention. Concerns named in the report included: lack of protection of minorities from hate speech; racial motivation of crimes not being an aggravating circumstance; strong emphasis on Estonian language in the state Integration strategy; usage of punitive approach for promoting Estonian language; restrictions of the usage of minority language in public services; low level of minority representation in political life; persistently high number of persons with undetermined citizenship, etc'
But of course there is some context to the systematic discrimination so that makes it understandable..