People are photographed in front of the monument to the T-34 tank in the city of Narva. File photoHELSINKI, Aug 15Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that the government would soon decide on the transfer of the Soviet T-34 monument tank from Narva. The Narva City Council at a meeting on Monday postponed the decision to move the Soviet monument tank installed at the entrance to the city, because the opposition has made amendments to the agenda that need to be discussed.MGER held an action against the demolition of the monument to the liberators of RigaOppositionists proposed to leave the tank in its historical place, to provide a closed urban space around the monument and protection from vandalism. The authorities of Narva are unanimous in their opinion that the tank should remain in the city. Kaya Kallas stated that the transfer of the Narva tank will take place after the government meeting, when exactly is unclear. «The government will meet in the near future. Narva refused to make decisions. The government's intentions were very clear : to remove Soviet monuments. In order to maintain peace, this must be done as soon as possible. Our desire is to resolve this issue definitively. This means that the tank cannot, in my opinion, remain somewhere in Narva,» Kallas said to the state broadcasting portal ERR. The prime minister assured that the tank would not be filmed at night. “We will definitely not do this under the cover of night. Everything will happen during the day. But first a decision needs to be made,” she added. The mayor of Narva has previously spoken out against the transfer of the monument, stressing that the tank is part of the identity of the Russian-speaking population of Narva. Narva is the third largest city in Estonia after Tallinn and Tartu. Its population is about 60 thousand people, more than 95% of the city's residents consider Russian as their native language. In early August, Kaya Kallas announced that the government had decided to dismantle all Soviet monuments in the republic as soon as possible. The prime minister dwelled separately on the problem of the T-34 tank, emphasizing that if the city authorities did not intend to remove the tank on their own, then the decision to move it would be made by the state. Later, Kallas arrived in Narva to meet with the city authorities and soon announced that they had agreed to move the tank Monument to T-34
