An opposition councilor in the eastern town of Narva says that despite hopes that dialogue with Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) will prove fruitful, councilors there still plan to go to court against the state, over the removal of a controversial Soviet-era tank monument.
Narva City Council member Mihhail Stalnuhhin tells ERR in an interview that he can continue teaching should the Center Party expel him over recent comments. He does not wish to run as an independent at Riigikogu elections. Stalnuhhin sees no potential political force capable of bringing together, for example, the people who were against the recent removal of the Soviet tank monument in Narva.
A World War Two-era T-34 Soviet tank is to be installed in the town of Ivangorod, just across the river from Narva and on the Russian side of the border with Estonia.
Chancellor of Justice Ülle Madise has criticized the holding of a Narva city council session, which took place predominantly in the Russian language, earlier this month.
The Estonian War Museum in Viimsi, just outside Tallinn, saw three times the number of visitors over the weekend. While Saturday was a national holiday in Estonia (Restoration of Independence Day), the larger-than-usual crowd, of over 1,000 visitors, was likely drawn by a Soviet-made tank which had previously been located in Narva, opening up for public display.