In Estonia, the highly controversial Victory Day celebration has been attended by around 11 000 people. The majority of people arrived at the Tallinn Military Cemetery, according to Estonian police as quoted by public broadcaster ERR.
Traditionally, the central point of the Russian Victory Day events in Esonia capital remains laying flowers at the feed of the sculpture informally known as the Bronze Soldier. The monument commemorating the fallen on the Soviet side in World War Two was moved from Tallinn centre to the Tallinn Military Cemetery in 2007 and was followed by Russia-orchestrated riots, referred to as the Bronze Night.
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Roger Kumm, chief of the operational headquarters at the Estonian Police and Border Guard’s Northern Prefecture, commented that: «The number of people to the bronze soldier today was 11,000. This is one third the figure of previous years.»
Police detainted 50 people on Monday, May 9, not only in Tallinn and Harju County, but also in Ida-Viru County. The detentions were mostly related to wearing insignia deemed inflammatory under the recent legislation and in the light of Russia attacking Ukraine since February 24.
In Estonia, 11 000 gather on Russia’s Victory Day
