Latvia's Lady Liberty stands atop a stone pillar in a downtown Riga plaza, holding three gilded stars above her head to remind onlookers of the country's hard-fought unity and freedom. Built in ...

“In order to make something that belongs to the whole of Latvia, it has to be at Freedom Monument,” Lolita Tomsone, the organizer, told JTA. That year and last year, hundreds of participants ...

A handful of veterans, flanked by hundreds of supporters waving Latvian flags, gathered around Freedom Monument for the march under heavy police guard. The march in Latvia, a member of the NATO ...

Good riddance to it. Whatever it was known as, the monument was, in reality, a celebration of the brutal Soviet occupation of Latvia and, a daily insult to countless Latvians. After Latvia ...

Navigate backward to interact with the calendar and select a date. Press the question mark key to get the keyboard shortcuts for changing dates. Freedom Monument and the Central District $25 $500+ ...

Demand for a minister's resignation is the opposition's tool, Prime Minister Evika Silina (New Unity) said on Latvian Television on Wednesday, commenting on the National Alliance's decision to call ...

RIGA - Latvia needs to prepare to prevent worst-case scenarios in the coming years, President Edgars Rinkevics said at the National Armed Forces (NAF) change of command ceremony at the Freedom ...

TASS/. Latvia’s state police launched a criminal case into Saturday’s act of vandalism committed against a monument to Soviet soldiers who liberated the Latvian capital of Riga from Nazi ...