Conservatives table draft decree on removal of monument to Soviet army

• Published date: 03 May 2022
• Publication title: LETA

RIGA, May 3 (LETA) - The Conservatives group in the Saeima has tabled a draft decree intended to advance the plan to dismantle the Soviet-era monument in Victory Park in Riga, the political group's chairman Krisjanis Feldmans informed LETA.

The goal is to ensure the monument's demolition as a result of the political process, the lawmaker said, adding that one of the options would be to relocate the monument to a territory closed to the public.

The draft decree provides for suspending a provision of a Russia-Latvia agreement on the social protection of the Russian military pensioners and their families concerning memorial structures and monuments.

mong other things, section 13 of the agreement obliges Latvia to preserve the Soviet-era memorial structures in its territory.

The draft document proposed by the Conservatives would oblige the authorities responsible...