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Estonian War Museum has compiled Soviet war monuments and graves into a public database

The Soviet coat of arms disappears from the facade of the Tallinn Russian Cultural Centre – ERR

Liis Koppel of the Saaremaa Heritage Board about the Tehumardi monument in Saarte Hääl

Delfi on the vandalism towards Tehumardi memorial

Saaremaa municipality asks state for money for Tehumard monument – ERR

Saaremaa municipality covered the Tehumardi pillar with red symbolic tiles – ERR

Saaremaa municipality cannot remove red emblem from Tehumardi monument – ERR

New documentary on Soviet war graves and monuments

Auvere power plant metal panel

Open access ebook: Monuments and Territory. War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine

Maaleht writes about the Freedom Monument in Tapa (29.10.2024)

Public discussion on the Tehumardi Memorial and surrounding area

Five Cases for Public Engagement in Contested Heritage – How to Reframe Monuments Workshop in Narva (2024)

Delfi: There is no rush to adopt the “Red Monuments Act” (19.09.2024)

Presentation of the results of the international workshop “How to Reframe Monuments: Case Studies for Thinking Through Dissonant Heritage” on September 6 at EKA and EKA TV.

Media outlet Delfi on the position of the Minister of Interior: “I do not want to see the bust of any occupying power in Estonia”

The statue that never was – the persisting and vanishing Lenin Park of Helsinki

Failed reframing of the Lenin monument in Kotka

Exhibition “How to Reframe Monuments: The Tehumardi Memorial”

An exhibition dedicated to the Tehumardi Memorial was opened in Kuivastu Harbour

The value of the Tehumardi as a historic site today

Tehumardi as a place of memory of Soviet Estonia

Special issue of Kunsttexte.de War on Monuments: Documenting the Debates over Russian and Soviet Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe

Removal of grave markers of Red Army soldiers in Tehumardi began

International workshop “How to reframe monuments: case studies for thinking through dissonant heritage”

PhD Thesis Defence of Gregor Taul

Monumental Disputes

Cultural Heterologies and Democracy II. Transitions and Transformations in Post-Socialist Cultures in the 1980s and 1990s

Adaptation or surrender?

Monumental Vitamin

How to Reframe Monuments – Tehumardi debate

PhD Vitamin 2024

Research project creates new solutions for reinterpreting monuments