Estonia protests to Russia over alleged attack on ambassador

Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet lodged a strong protest with Russia against an alleged attack on the Baltic nation's ambassador by Russian protestors, reports from Tallinn said Thursday.

Paet made the protest during a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday evening.

Moscow must beef up measures to secure Estonia's Embassy to Russia, which has been blockaded for nearly a week by protesters, he said.

Lavrov said Russia had sent more police officers to prevent the situation around the embassy from deteriorating.

Estonian Ambassador to Russia Marina Kaljurand was confronted by protestors ahead of a press conference earlier Wednesday, according to local media reports.

The protestors are unhappy that a statue of a Red Army soldier commemorating Soviet soldiers killed during World War II was removed from Tynismyagi square in Tallin on Thursday.

The statue was re-erected in a military cemetery on Monday.

Source: Xinhua