On 23 April 2001, the Estonian media publicized an appeal drafted by twentysix Estonian social scientists titled "Two Estonias." The main message of this dramatic document asserted that: Estonian society [has] run finto [a] political, social, and ethical crisis. Governance is alienated from the people to the extent that we have to speak about two different Estonias. Two-thirds of Estonian children grow up in poverty, people suffer from the lack of basic security, many young people want to leave the country... as long as most of the steam is used to create for foreigners a glamorous illusionary image of Estonia as a successful developed country, social problems will not find solutions. (Postimees)