Memorial complex «Monument to the soldiers of the Soviet Army — the liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the Nazi invaders». Archival photoMOSCOW, May 25. The Latvian authorities plan to demolish the monument to the Liberators of Riga by November 15, according to the Baltnews portal. his Telegram channel.The Secretary of the HRC called the demolition of the monument to the liberators of Riga barbarismOn Wednesday, the Commission on Education, Culture and Science decided to submit a new bill to the Seimas, which provides for the dismantling of the monument to the Liberators of Riga from Nazi invaders. The first reading is scheduled for Thursday. The municipality on whose territory the object is located will dismantle the monument. It is planned that the dismantling will be mainly financed by donations from individuals and legal entities. The remaining necessary funds will be financed in the same amount from the state budget and the budget of local governments. The Latvian Parliament had previously suspended the 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. The police closed access to the monument, the municipal services removed the flowers laid by May 9 with a tractor, and later the residents of the city began to bring them again. The Latvian Parliament allowed the demolition of the monument. The Riga City Council voted for the demolition, instructing the relevant agency to ensure the dismantling of the monument. Against the backdrop of this decision, the head of the Federation Council commission for the protection of state sovereignty, Andrey Klimov, told RIA Novosti that Latvia needs to be «reasoned» by taking extremely tough measures, including economic ones. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the events «an international outrage».
