Good riddance to it. Whatever it was known as, the monument was, in reality, a celebration of the brutal Soviet occupation of Latvia and, a daily insult to countless Latvians. After Latvia ...

TASS/. The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the OSCE has condemned the destruction of a monument to Soviet liberators of WWII in the Latvian city of Jekabpils. "We condemn another ...

Lawmakers in Riga announced on August 22 that the monument should be demolished ... level decisions had been made in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to demolish Soviet memorials.

RIGA, Latvia (JTA) — Each year on March 16, a macabre event unfolds on the square around this capital city’s most famous monument. Known as the Memorial for Latvian Legionnaires, it is the ...