Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 27 Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to investigate the desecration of a monument to Soviet soldiers in the city of Valmiera in Latvia, according to the website of the Investigative Committee. army at a mass grave in Valmiera. «The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation instructed the Main Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee to establish all the circumstances of what happened in the framework of the criminal case. On behalf of A.I. Bastrykin, the investigators will establish all the circumstances of these events and persons who desecrated the monument to Soviet soldiers» 
Another monument to Soviet soldiers was desecrated in Lithuania
