Sitting of the Latvian Seimas. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 26The Latvian parliament has supported a bill in the first reading that obliges municipal authorities to demolish Soviet monuments, including the monument to the Liberators of Riga, by November 15, the press service of the Seimas said on Thursday. Thursday, May 26, the Seimas in the first reading supported a new bill that provides for the dismantling of the monument «To the Warriors of the Soviet Army — Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from Nazi invaders», located in the Victory Park in Riga,» the message says.
Dzhabarov proposed to install a copy of the monument to the Liberators of Riga in Moscow «The dismantling of the objects must be carried out before November 15 of this year, and the municipality on whose territory the object is located will be obliged to do this,» the message says. The Latvian Parliament earlier suspended the clause of the intergovernmental agreement with Russia on the protection of monuments to Soviet soldiers, which allows the dismantling of the monument Liberators of Riga. 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 Sergey Lavrov called the events «an international outrage». What's going on in Poland and the Baltics
