ABSTRACT
There is no doubt that the April events concerning the Bronze Soldier will become a benchmark in the contemporary history of the state of Estonia. It is the bifurcation point, the point of division, separating ‘before’ and ‘after’. For Estonian society these events are even more important than joining NATO or European Union. Before April 2007 we lived in one country and now we are getting used to living in another one. [Aleksei Semjonov, director of the Legal Information Centre for Human Rights in Tallinn (LICHR 2007, p. 7)]
