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State Duma’s Lawmakers Found Saw-Cut Traces in Bronze Soldier
Deputies of Russia’s State Duma, who are currently in Tallinn, have spotted “the cross-over saw-cut” traces on the Statue of Red Army Bronze Soldier, RIA Novosti reported with reference to Nikolay Kovalev, chairman of State Duma’s Veterans’ Committee.
“It means the Victory symbol has been sawn after all,” Kovalev said. “It’s good they have had enough spirit to reconstruct it now. We can see the restorers have worked not bad at all,” he emphasized.
The Bronze Soldier was removed from the Tonismägi Hill of downtown Tallinn under cover of darkness early Friday, April 27, 2007, and moved to the military cemetery of the city.
The hasty removal of monument triggered the rumors about cutting him up, but Prime Minister of Estonia Andrus Ansip deflated the allegations on short notice.
Nevertheless, “the careful examination of monument shows traces of made-off joints throughout the Bronze Soldier.” Official Estonia said the joints proved that monument had been assembled from separate fragments when it had been initially made.
Russia’s legislators weren’t allowed to visit the place of excavations. They were told that those were archeological excavations and the presence of Russia’s or Estonian policymakers would be hardly appropriate there.
The latest news is that nine coffins of Russia’s soldiers have been found on Tonismägi Hill during excavations.
Some time earlier, Estonian frontier guards closed the border for seven activists of Nashi movement, allegedly going on excursion to Tallinn. The reason of the ban was that activists constitute a threat to the state security of Estonia.
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