Latvia's Lady Liberty stands atop a stone pillar in a downtown Riga plaza, holding three gilded stars above her head to remind onlookers of the country's hard-fought unity and freedom. Built in ...

including the monument in Riga’s Victory Park, memorials dedicated to the soldiers of the Red Army in Liepaja, Rezekne and Daugavpils. On August 3, a monument to Soviet soldiers was dismantled ...

The Russian embassy in Latvia condemned the incident, saying that vandalism of this kind comes as a direct consequence of attempts to rewrite the history of World War II RIGA, October 28.