Tallinn Removes SS Memorial
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A controversial monument commemorating Estonians who fought in the German army against Soviet troops during World War II was removed Thursday, after the government said it damaged the Baltic state's image.
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Estonia on Tuesday reburied the remains of eight Soviet soldiers exhumed from a war grave in a move that sparked deadly riots and infuriated neighboring Russia.
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Moldova and the Dniester region simultaneously abolished three posts outside the city of Bendery last weekend.
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A war on Soviet-era monuments is continuing in Estonia. A monument at a site of execution of 26 Red Army fighters in 1919 was vandalised in the town Katela in Estonia.
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A memorial service commemorating the tenth anniversary of the sinking of the passenger ferry Estonia filled Turku Cathedral on Tuesday.
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President Toomas Hendrik Ilves vetoed legislation Thursday calling for the removal of a Soviet war memorial from the capital, saying the measure violated the constitution.
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The substance, recovered from an Iraqi munitions factory in 1996, was removed today by a Haz-Mat team.
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Estonian Defense Minister Margus Hanson announced Wednesday that he will resign after his briefcase containing state confidential files was stolen, news from Tallinn, capital of Estonia, reported.
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'Shocking' portraits of former US president Richard Nixon are removed from Norwegian parliament walls.
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Plans for a new walkway to Jerusalem's holiest site are scrapped amid archaeological concerns, Israeli officials say.
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Russia on Monday called the unveiling of a monument commemorating Estonians who fought in the German army during World War II a "disgraceful act" and urged NATO and the European Union to take notice.
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KIEV, November 3 (Itar-Tass) - Water cannons and armoured personnel carriers were removed from the territory of the Ukrainian central election commission on Wednesday.
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India will stage celebrations to mark the 350th anniversary of the Taj Mahal but archeological concerns have forced organisers to shift the event away from the monument.
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Ivory Coast asked Estonia on Tuesday to   detain a Panamanian-registered tanker at a Baltic port after an   eighth person died from exposure to toxic waste discharged by   the vessel in the West African country last month.
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Russia on Monday sharply criticized a monument honoring Estonians who fought in the German army against Soviet troops during World War II, calling it a disgraceful glorification of Nazis and urging the European ...
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An Estonian court has fined a man in  the only conviction linked to cyber attacks on official Web  sites during last year's riots over the relocation of a  Soviet-era war memorial, it said on Thursday.
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An urban ministry that aids the poor and homeless had its official recognition removed by Lutheran church officials in a dispute over an associate pastor who is in a lesbian relationship.