Yesterday, unidentified culprits threw red paint over a Soviet war memorial after the local authorities had ordered that a memorial in the same cemetery to Estonians who fought with the Nazis be pulled down.
The party's leadership released a statement supporting the Estonian authorities' decision to demolish that memorial, but it also expressed concern over the attack on the Soviet memorial and calls from the radical-nationalist party, the Union of the Fatherland, to pull down all Soviet war memorials.
The Russian Party of Estonia's statement reads that Soviet war memorials stand and are honoured all over Europe, while the Union of the Fatherland's attempts to place memorials to Soviet troops and others to those who fought with the Nazis on an equal footing look like deliberate revision.
