Friday Photo: Man of Bronze
A member of the pro-Kremlin youth group Young Guard, dressed to resemble a Soviet Red Army bronze soldier statue located in Tallinn, protests outside the Estonian embassy in Moscow on April 30, 2009. A group protested on the second anniversary of the relocation of the statue from the central city square to a military graveyard, ...
A member of the pro-Kremlin youth group Young Guard, dressed to resemble a Soviet Red Army bronze soldier statue located in Tallinn, protests outside the Estonian embassy in Moscow on April 30, 2009. A group protested on the second anniversary of the relocation of the statue from the central city square to a military graveyard, a move that sparked rioting two years ago.
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Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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