Estonia Removes Soviet Era Tank Monument Amid Tensions In Russia Estonia
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Soviet monuments in Estonia were no longer just a local issue, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday. “No one wants to see our belligerent and hostile neighbor stirring up tensions in our home,” Callas said. The Baltic state was a Soviet republic from 1944 to 1991, and nearly a quarter of its 1.3 million people are Russian. “We will not give Russia the opportunity to use the past to disturb the peace in Estonia,” Kallas said....