Scruffy says:

Well, I'm half-russian, living in Estonia and I totally disagree with Kokoito.

It seem like you have a "tibla" brain. Tibla doesn't mean russian or russian speaking. I know personally few estonians who could be a tibla. Tibla stays more for a way to think and live. It's like a person who doen't have a nation and behaves like worst kind of Homo Sovieticus. Unfortunately lots of people that fits to this description are russian-speaking.

For the Second: You telling about a people with flowers, yes there was people with flowers at the first they at deytime... but the riots started by nighttime, when people with flowers went home or exchanged flowers against rocks.

For the Third: It seems that you are only reading russian news... 350 policemen resigned... yes i remember that it came from russian news as a propaganda. In fact i have a good friend working in estonian police and he told me that most of russian policemen in estonia, after they heard this "news" wanted to work more and show to the world that russian press lies!

And one more thing to you:

It wasnt 49%, it was 51% and it wasn't percent of populace, it was percent of russian spoken people in Estonia. With other word it was 1/6 of estonian population

About my opinion:

Actually knowing that this statue made a lots of pain for most of estonian people (mostly because 1944, when german troops recided, estonian people regenerated estonian goverment. A week later came russian troops and aircraft and flatted a whole estonian capital. They killed only civilians and later they started to call this day for freeing estonia from german nazis... Russians still denies, that this has happened) I had nothing against it. Actually i never paid an attention to this, for me it doesn't matter if there was a statue of a soldier, king or a penis. I believed that if there is a people who had relationship to this statue, let it be. This was my opinion until two years ago. Then I went of a bus (actually there is a bus stop right on a graves) and i was speaking to my estonian friend in estonian language. I wasn't thinking that this is a 9th may (russians celebrate then end of WW2). There was lots of people, with red soviet flags and they was screaming and yelling, drinking vodka (in Estonia its forbidden to drink alcohol in a public places) and dancing (in my knowledge this kind of behavior is not allowed on a graves in any culture). I didn't payed attention and went my way and chatting with my friend, when suddenly... somebody out of this mass of people started to pint at me and screaming "f..ing estonian nazis, kill them". After that a lot of a people started to scream loudly a f word to me and my friend . We didn't payed attention and tryed to get out of there, when we noticed that some of a people started to hunt us and somebody throw an empty glass bottle. After this day i totally changed my mind. I started to understand better estonians misery and i started to hate really hardly those "Tiblad".

To the end i want just say that i agree with estonian government: if this is a grave for a soldiers, then it should be placed on military graveyard and it should be treated as grave and memory place, not like a public pub!