TALLINN, Estonia – Russian lawmakers called for sanctions against Estonia on Friday after authorities here removed a Soviet war memorial, carrying out a plan that provoked deadly street riots ...

Some German scholars working on Soviet memorial sites have tried to strike a middle ground by updating Red Army monuments to reflect political changes and new academic research.

Rubber bullets and a water cannon were fired at hundreds of protesters in Estonia's capital Friday in a second night of rioting by ethnic Russians over the removal of a Soviet war memorial.

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Soviet war memorial, 1950 Stars and Stripes • August 22, 2018 Henry Toluzzi ©Stars and Stripes Berlin, May, 1950: Visitors crowd the steps of the Soviet war memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park.

The Soviet war memorial commemorates the 27 million Soviet civilians and servicemen and women who died in World War II. Of that number, some 1.5 to two million were Jewish victims of the Nazi ...

Poland has begun demolishing a Soviet-era memorial to Red Army soldiers, the latest in a series of monuments that have been pulled down in Central and Eastern Europe amid growing hostility toward ...

The pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi says it will demonstrate against the removal of a Soviet war memorial from Uzbek capital, Tashkent, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.

Emperor Naruhito to meet president, lay flowers at memorial dedicated to Japanese prisoners captured by Soviet Union and sent ...