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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Latvia’s ambassador to Russia Maris Riekstins ... those to the effect that Riga was demolishing monuments to Soviet liberators because Russia's special military operation in Ukraine was ...