People come to place flowers at monument to Soviet soldiers in Riga's Pardaugava, observed by several hundred police officers

Published date09 May 2022
Publication titleLETA

RIGA, May 9 (LETA) - Regardless of officials and the authorities' appeal to the public not to come to the monument to Soviet soldiers in Riga's Pardaugava today, people still come to lay flowers at the monument, although in much smaller numbers than in the past years, LETA observed.

This year, the number of people coming to the monument is much smaller than in the past years, they are also less pompous, given the ban on the use of symbols glorifying the Soviet regime. People cannot access the monument itself and they leave their flowers at special tables set up outside the fence surrounding the monument, from where they are taken to...

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