Bronze Night
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The Bronze Night, also known as the April Unrest and April Events, was a number of riots in Estonia surrounding the 2007 relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet World War II memorial in
Protests in downtown Tallinn after police cordoned off the streets around the memorial, driving protesters toward the city centre.
Plaque on the building of Government of Estonia, Toompea, commemorating government members killed by communist terror
Police cordoning off the statue on April 26, 2007. The sign says "archeological excavation".
Burning kiosk, April 26, 2007.
Andrus Ansip
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Andrus Ansip is an Estonian politician, a former member of the European Parliament, the former European Commissioner for Digital Single Market and Vice President of the European Commission, in office
Bronze Night
…as a "fact-finding mission". While still in Russia, the chairman of the delegation had already made a declaration, asking Estonia's government (led by Andrus Ansip) to step down. Sven Mikser, leader of the foreign affairs' commission of the Riigikogu, who was one of the Estonian politicians to meet the Russian…
Official portrait, 2014
Ansip with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, March 2007
Ansip at the UK Nordic Baltic Summit in London, 20 January 2011