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01.04.2008, 00:00
Moscow will press for a swift investigation into the murder of a Russian citizen in Estonia last year. Foreign Minister Lavrov made the announcement at a session of the Coordinating Council of Russian Compatriots.
26.04.2008, 15:29
A year ago the Estonian government removed a Soviet WW2 monument from the centre of its capital Tallinn. The relocation of the Bronze Soldier sparked rioting that led to the death of one man.
28.04.2008, 18:33
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German’s Die Deutsche Zeitung writes that the Estonian government has announced the total sum of its financial losses as a result of the removal of a Soviet war memorial from central Tallinn last April at $US 700 MLN.
15.09.2008, 17:38
Leaflets have been distributed in Estonia calling on the Russian ethnic minority to hold a referendum and create a territorial autonomy in the Baltic state. That’s according to ‘Vesti Dnya’ newspaper.
03.11.2008, 14:40
An Estonian court has resumed hearing the case against the organisers of protests against the removal of the Bronze Soldier monument.
10.12.2008, 09:45
Activists who opposed the demolition of a Soviet war memorial in Tallinn appear in court in the Estonian capital on Wednesday. The four men are charged with staging mass riots in April 2007 after a decision by Estonian authorities to remove the monument.
14.01.2008, 15:34
Four activists charged with organising riots in Tallinn last spring are standing trial in the Estonian capital. The men are accused of instigating violence in the city following the decision to relocate a Soviet War memorial. If found guilty the defendant
Published: 11 December, 2008, 22:34
Estonia’s president won’t let his MPs lose a penny even if they want to. Toomas Hendrik Ilves is proposing that the State Court annuls a law freezing the salaries of deputies in the country’s parliament – on the grounds it’s unconstitutional.
