the massive Victory Memorial (more formally, 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 ...
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 ...
The best evidence of progress might actually be the bustling Central District that surrounds the monument. Several embassies, the University of Latvia, the National Opera House, a park ...