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The Mayor of Bratsk asked to give a monument to the Soviet soldiers in Riga
Bratsk mayor Sergei Serebryannikov invited the Latvian authorities to give a monument to soldiers-liberators in the center of Riga, who are going to demolish. The head of Bratsk turned to the president and Sejm Latvia in his telegram channel.
According to Serebryannikov, he sent a letter to the Latvian authorities along with deputies of the city council on May 31, but had not yet received an answer. He noted that the inhabitants of Riga are protecting the monument from demolition, but they have a hard time, so the residents of Bratsk are "ready to support them." "The President of Latvia, Diet, I ask you, give us an answer and give us this monument. We have where to put it. We cannot forget the feat of warriors who fought with fascism," said the head of Bratsk.
- On May 13, deputies of the Riga Duma decided to demolish the monument to the soldiers of the Soviet Army erected during the USSR. The decision was made by 39 votes against 13, another 8 people for various reasons did not vote. The Sejm canceled the contract between Russia and Latvia, which defended the monument from demolition.
- A significant part of the Russian population of the country opposes demolition, believing that the monument perpetuates the memory of Riga's liberators from Nazism. The police detained 7 people on the town hall, as stated, unauthorizedly protested against the decision. Part of the population of Latvia, on the contrary, considers the monument a symbol of the Soviet occupation.
- In May in Riga, the procession "for liberation from the Soviet heritage" took place, in which several thousand people took part. Participants in the procession demand to demolish the "monument to liberators" and other Soviet monuments across the country.