The two Russian citizens were detained on June 9. They had entered Estonia on tourist visas and said they were acting as "living memorials" to the "heroes of the Great Patriotic War."
Estonia moved the monument to another location in April, sparking protests within Russian and in Estonia by the country's ethnic Russian minority. Protestors saw the move as disrespectful to the Soviet Union's wartime sacrifice to help liberate Europe from Nazi Germany.
(dpa, ITAR-TASS)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) with EU foreign policy representative Javier Solana in Sochi in May 2006 (epa)
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