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 ...

RIGA, Latvia (JTA) — Each year on March 16 ... something that belongs to the whole of Latvia, it has to be at Freedom Monument,” Lolita Tomsone, the organizer, told JTA.

the three oldest stone houses in Riga. Just outside the old walls awaits the Freedom Monument: built to commemorate Latvia’s independence in the 1930s. Ironically, just a few years later ...

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 ...

RIGA, Latvia (JTA) — Police arrested a man for ... flanked by hundreds of supporters waving Latvian flags, gathered around Freedom Monument for the march under heavy police guard.

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+ ...

the “Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders”) is, as I write, being dismantled in Riga, the Latvian capital. I wrote about this excrescence here.

cutting a piece of it and drawing obscene words on the monument’s pedestal RIGA, December 11. /TASS/. Russia’s Embassy in Latvia had condemned the act of vandalism against a memorial to the ...

A flight from London to Riga takes around two hours 30 minutes and is affordable at around just £27 in January! For cheapest flights, check Skyscanner where you can see return prices month by month ...