fortunately, our ID cards are good until 2011!

http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/17541/

"People applying for a long-term residency permit in Estonia will have to pass a language exam under new requirements to be introduced on July 1. The Interior Ministry said basic Estonian language skills would now form part of the application process. Those who wanted to avoid the language requirement now have two months to file their application, the Citizenship and Migration Board said."