Russians protest the removal of Soviet monuments

He added that the authorities of a country have the right to decide about such things and the resignation from this would mean a resignation from sovereignty. A group of young Russians organized a protest in front of the Polish embassy in Moscow yesterday, rallying against the support Poland has granted to Estonia in its conflict with Russia over the removal a Soviet monument. Another voice of protest came from Church Alexei II, the head of the Russian Orthodox, who said: "What began in Estonia and is continued in Poland now offends the memory of our soldiers who paid the highest price by giving their life for their homeland." (Dziennik, p. 9; Rzeczpospolita, p. A6) E.B.