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Ansip lays flowers at Bronze Soldier, while government seeks to bridge gap in society

May 09, 2007
By TBT staff

BRONZE IRONY: While the monument's epitaph reads 'to the unknown soldier,' the Bronze Soldier itself has become a focal point for the world's media as well as a magnet for Finnish and Scandinavian tourists.
TALLINN - Throughout the week government officials continued to assess the economic, political and moral damages of the rioting that gripped Estonia in late April, while Prime Minister Andrus Ansip made the unprecedented gesture of laying flowers at the disputed Bronze Soldier statue, something no Baltic leader has ever done before. Ansip, whose battered government must now face the task of repairing a scarred society, is hoping that the gesture, made May 8 to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germ ...

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