Under Soviet occupation, the pillar came to represent Mother Russia uniting Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. In present day, travelers describe this monument as decidedly somber, but credit how it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moscow states with regret that far from everywhere international partners harboring in Latvia demonstrated an adequate reaction to the practice of turning Nazi criminals into heroes. A monument to ...

A handful of veterans, flanked by hundreds of supporters waving Latvian flags, gathered around Freedom Monument for the march under heavy police guard. The march in Latvia, a member of the NATO ...

TASS/. Tearing down the monument to Soviet Army Soldiers in Riga will come as another act of state vandalism and triumph of Russophobia, the chairman of the Russian State Duma’s committee for ...