At the end of September, Arnold Meri, a hero of the USSR and an organizer of the March mass deportations had a monument erected in his memory. Read how the Estonian Russian language media wrote about the event.

On the 29th of January the 23. Jet fighter squadron, titled the „Tallinn named squadron“ a tribute by the Russian President, renewed the name of its reformation after a part of the flight group that bombed Tallinn on 22. October 1944 called the „Tallinn squadron.“

During the weekend, a great number of new articles appeared where they are blaming Estonia with wanting to demolish another Soviet monument. Read more about the propaganda attack here!

The television channel Pervõi wove its propaganda message into a theatre festival’s telecast. Fortunately, thanks to an intervention from the festival team, the bias video clip was removed. Read about it here!

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the occurrences at the Jõhvi cemetery, where a letter sent to the county administration by private individuals received biased reports in the Russian media. New elements were added last week to the case where on the 4th of July.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence has created a web-based database called “People’s heroics”, that gathers all the people who were awarded in the Red Army during the Second World War. The database was opened in 2015, 70 years after the end of the war, and everyone can do the searches.