Dzhabarov proposed to install a copy of the monument to the Liberators of Riga in Moscow

Monument to the Liberators of Riga. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 24.Vladimir Dzhabarov, First Deputy Head of the International Committee of the Federation Council, proposed to install a copy of the monument to the Liberators of Riga, which is being dismantled in this Baltic country, in front of the Latvian embassy in Moscow, so that the diplomatic mission staff could see it every day. The Parliament of Latvia had previously suspended the operation of a clause of the intergovernmental agreement with Russia on the protection of monuments to Soviet soldiers, which allows the monument to the Liberators of Riga to be dismantled. Access to the monument to the Liberators of Riga will be closed until the end of AugustThe police closed access to the monument, municipal services removed the flowers laid by May 9 with a tractor, later residents of the city again started bringing them. The Latvian Parliament allowed the demolition of the monument. The Riga City Council voted for the demolition, instructing the specialized agency to ensure the dismantling of the monument. «Maybe, in general, move the Latvian embassy from the center of Moscow to the outskirts and, on the contrary, place a copy of the monument to the Liberators of Riga,» the RIA Novosti senator said on Tuesday. staff, leaving the diplomatic mission, was a memorial. «Maybe then their conscience will torment them,» the senator noted.