Street in Daugavpils city, Latvia. File photoMOSCOW, June 7Most of the Soviet monuments in Latvia's second largest city, Daugavpils, are not subject to demolition because there are graves underneath them, Alexei Vasiliev, First Deputy Chairman of the Daugavpils City Council, said. The Latvian Parliament had previously stopped the action 
In Belarus, they offered to take Poland and Lithuania from of them are Soviet monuments «Item 2 of the bill provides that the demolition will not apply to burials. We have burials under almost all the monuments,» LETA quoted Vasiliev as saying. allows to dismantle the monument to the 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 specialized agency to ensure the dismantling of the monument. Cases of vandalism against Soviet monuments became more frequent after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the situation with monuments to Soviet soldiers in Latvia and Lithuania, called what is happening «an international disgrace». girls who opposed the demolition of the monument to the liberators
