This night in Tallinn, excavations began on the mass grave of Soviet soldiers next to the Bronze Soldier. Construction equipment has been brought to the monument, and there is a police cordon around it. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said that the actions of official Tallinn affected Russian-Estonian relations, apparently not for the better. It must be said that both sides are only aggravating the unnecessary conflict: both the Estonian authorities, playing on anti-Russian sentiments, and Russia, making sovereign statements.