- 13:57 16/05/2007
Estonia's Prime Minister defended the decision to move the Bronze Soldier statue from central Tallinn to the outskirts, but admitted he had underestimated the significance of the monument for Russians. 
- 13:14 13/05/2007
The issue of a Soviet WWII memorial in Estonia will be raised at a Russia-EU summit but closer cooperation between Russia and the European Union will top the summit's agenda, a Kremlin source said Sunday.
- 15:42 11/05/2007
The European Parliament defended Estonia in a diplomatic spat with Russia over a World War II monument and urged Moscow to respect democratic values ahead of a Russia-EU summit next week.
- 18:14 10/05/2007
Russia's lower house of parliament has evidence of police brutality during riots provoked by the removal of a Soviet war memorial in Estonia's capital in late April, the house speaker said Thursday.
- 13:37 09/05/2007
A delegation from the Russian Embassy in Estonia has laid a wreath at the Bronze Soldier Soviet-era monument and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Tallinn.
- 17:45 08/05/2007
Russia's economics ministry is not drafting any proposals to limit trade with Estonia, a deputy minister said Tuesday.
- 12:08 07/05/2007
Russia rejects some countries' attempts to rewrite history, Russia's foreign minister said Monday.
- 18:12 06/05/2007
The riots that erupted in the Estonian capital after the removal of a Soviet-era WWII memorial from central Tallinn will not be repeated and calm is returning to society, Estonia's police chief said Sunday.
- 15:14 05/05/2007
Estonia's foreign minister said Saturday it is Russia that owes his country an apology in the dispute over the removal of a Red Army monument and a war grave in the capital Talllinn.
- 19:12 04/05/2007
The U.S. Senate adopted a resolution Friday by a simple majority supporting Estonia and denouncing attacks against its embassies in Russia and elsewhere.
- 17:22 04/05/2007
A pro-Kremlin youth group disrupted a panel discussion with the Estonian consul general in Russia's second-largest city Friday.
- 15:44 04/05/2007
- 13:51 04/05/2007
The Estonian embassy's consular service in Moscow resumed work Friday following an end to a siege of the building by protestors, an embassy officer said.
- 10:01 04/05/2007
The leaders of a youth movement announced late Thursday that they were ending demonstrations outside the Estonian Embassy in Moscow.
- 21:46 03/05/2007
Estonia's removal of a WWII monument was a sign of "fascism, racism and Nazism," the Slovak news agency TASR quoted Slovakia's deputy parliament speaker as saying Thursday.
- 19:58 03/05/2007
Russia has been angered by the reaction of some EU countries, as well as the U.S., in an escalating dispute with Estonia over the removal of a Soviet-era war memorial from central Tallinn.
- 16:31 03/05/2007
Russia's Foreign Ministry expressed concern to the ambassadors of Germany, Portugal and the European Commission over "the lack of a principled position on Estonian actions" regarding a Soviet monument.
- 15:39 03/05/2007
Russian authorities are making sure that demonstrations in front of the Estonian Embassy in Moscow remain within the law, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Estonian counterpart.
- 13:28 03/05/2007
The United States backed Estonia Thursday in its escalating dispute with Russia over the removal of a Soviet war memorial, saying it was the Baltic state's internal affair and urging dialogue.
- 20:04 02/05/2007
A dispute between Russia and Estonia over the removal of a Soviet war memorial from central Tallinn continues, with Moscow referring the case to the UN and the Baltic state seeking protection from the European Commission.
- 15:20 02/05/2007
Estonia is not responsible for the lack of constructive dialogue with Russia over the removal of the Bronze Soldier monument from the center of Tallinn, the Estonian ambassador to Russia said Wednesday.
- 10:42 02/05/2007
Russia has raised the issue of the removal of Soviet WWII memorials in countries freed from Nazi occupation with the UN, Russia's envoy to the UN said Wednesday.
- 16:59 01/05/2007
Estonia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday it had invited the visiting Russian lawmakers to attend the celebrations of the Allied Coalition's victory over Nazi Germany in the Baltic state May 8.
- 13:36 01/05/2007
Estonian authorities have barred Russian lawmakers from visiting the WWII memorial complex in central Tallinn, where the exhumation of Soviet soldiers' remains is under way, a member of the visiting delegation said Tuesday.
- 19:21 30/04/2007
The Bronze Soldier has been installed at a Tallinn military cemetery, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Monday.
- 14:27 30/04/2007
Estonia's Foreign Ministry filed a note of protest with Russia over the situation around the Baltic state's embassy in Moscow, the ministry press service said Monday.
- 17:26 29/04/2007
A senior Russian lawmaker dismissed Sunday as unfounded Estonia's claims that Russia was to blame for escalating tension in Estonia and sparking clashes in the Estonian capital after the removal of the Soviet WWII monument.
- 15:08 29/04/2007
Estonia will relocate a Soviet-era WWII memorial to a military cemetery after its removal in the center of Tallinn sparked clashes between protesters and police, the Estonian defense minister said Sunday.
- 21:23 28/04/2007
An Estonian court has sanctioned the arrests of Russian speaking activists detained during mass protests in Tallinn against the removal of a Soviet monument, the Harju court press service said Saturday.
- 20:45 28/04/2007
A senior Russian lawmaker has urged the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to include the dispute over the Soviet WWII memorial in Tallinn in its June session.
- 20:29 28/04/2007
- 19:57 28/04/2007
The Estonian parliament and presidential palace have been surrounded by concrete blocks and barbed wire to stave off protests, as the exhumation of the soldiers remains starts under the Soviet-era memorial in Tallinn.
- 19:24 28/04/2007
Moscow-centered supermarket chains will stop selling Estonian goods from the weekend as part of a civil protest against the removal of the Soviet-era WWII memorial in Estonia this week.
- 17:36 28/04/2007
The Estonian Consulate in Moscow has closed for security reasons on the second day of protests in the two capitals against the removal of the Soviet monument in Tallinn, the embassy said Saturday.
- 17:01 28/04/2007
- 15:26 28/04/2007
The EU's leading foreign policy and security official said Saturday he was concerned by the use of force against protesters following the removal of a WWII statue in Tallinn Friday.
- 16:45 27/04/2007
The controversial Soviet-era WWII monument in central Tallinn has been cut up and taken out of the city center, the Estonian government press service said Friday.
- 14:11 27/04/2007
Russia's upper house has submitted to the president a resolution to break off diplomatic ties with Estonia following the removal of a Soviet World War II monument in Tallinn.
- 11:47 27/04/2007
Russia's upper house of parliament will adopt a statement calling for breaking diplomatic ties with Estonia over the removal of a monument to Soviet soldiers in Tallinn, the speaker said Friday.
- 09:45 27/04/2007
Russia sees no justification for the removal of the WWII Bronze Soldier statue in Tallinn and plans to review its relations with Estonia, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
- 21:39 26/04/2007
Police in Tallinn, Estonia, had to use tear gas to disperse protesters against Estonian authorities' decision to remove a World War II monument to Soviet soldiers.
- 15:27 26/04/2007
Russia's parliamentary speaker condemned Thursday the start of the exhumation and reburial of 13 fallen WWII Soviet soldiers in the Estonian capital as obscurantism.
- 16:30 25/04/2007
Exhumation of Soviet soldiers' remains near the Bronze Soldier statue in Tallinn will start soon, but the statue will not be moved before VE Day May 9, Estonia's prime minister said Wednesday.
- 14:53 23/04/2007
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday it is firmly against Estonia's plans to exhume and rebury the remains of Soviet soldiers resting near the Bronze Soldier statue in central Tallinn.
- 12:47 23/04/2007
Estonia's defense minister said Monday his country should cooperate closely with Russia within the Russia-NATO Council and sign an agreement on the protection of military cemeteries.
- 14:48 03/04/2007
The possible removal of a Soviet war memorial in central Tallinn will affect bilateral relations between Estonia and Russia, a Russian first deputy prime minister said Tuesday.
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