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Over 100 sets of human remains are likely buried at a mass grave in the South Estonian town of Viljandi, excavation work which began this week has revealed.

Three World War II mass graves in Viljandi Municipality were being excavated by the Estonian Military Museum on Tuesday, the latest Soviet memorial sites to be taken down.

The remains of several hundred people were found in a Soviet-era grave site in Tartu this week, far fewer than initially reported in data from the time.

A Soviet-era tank used as a war memorial in the eastern border town of Narva and now relocated to a war museum near Tallinn was found on Wednesday to be more than just a chassis, and contains an engine.

The 'Narva tank' is now inside a hangar at the national war museum in Viimsi, near Tallinn, after its removal Tuesday, and while much of the focus on events dealt with political aspects, the museum's chief noted that, at 30 tonnes, the logistical side was noteworthy too.

A museum just outside Tallinn says it is ready to host a controversial tank monument which is in the process of being removed from the eastern Estonian town of Narva by government order.

The process of exhuming human remains that had been reburied in Pärnu's Old Park during the Soviet occupation of Estonia was completed Tuesday. The Soviet monument that had been located at the site was removed on Monday already.

TALLINN - The Soviet monument in the Vanapark park of the southwestern Estonian resort town of Parnu has been removed and the square dug up, whi...

Under the direction of the War Museum, excavations began on Wednesday over the mass grave of Rakvere Red Army soldiers who died in World War II in order to inter their remains at the Rakvere City Cemetery.

The Ministry of Defense has decided to relocate and rebury war graves located in Võsu, Pärnu, Emmaste, Nõo and Rakvere. According to the director of the Estonian War Museum, they will consider afterward whether a public procurement should be organized for further reburials.