VILNIUS, May 13. /TASS/. The Riga City Council on Friday voted to start preparations required to remove a monument to Soviet soldiers in the city’s Victory Park, the Latvian Radio and Television ...
the “Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders”) is, as I write, being dismantled in Riga, the Latvian capital. I wrote about this excrescence here.
On August 3, a monument to Soviet soldiers was dismantled in Riga’s Pardaugava district ... s supporters and the police erupted near the building of the Central Electoral Bureau immediately ...
Under Soviet rule until 1991 ... Between the end of the First World War and the start of the Second, Riga underwent something of a building frenzy, resulting in a gorgeous Art Deco quarter ...
Latvians have been told to convert their basements into air raid shelters amid fears that Vladimir Putin could target the Baltic states next. Vilnis Kirsis, the mayor of Riga, Lativa’s capital ...