Police officers detain a man with a tattoo of the hammer and sickle, a symbol of the Soviet coat of arms, as people gather to protest against the demolition of the monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders at Victory Park in Riga, Latvia. Latvian authorities on August 23 began work to dismantle the Soviet World War II monument. In May of this year the Latvian parliament approved the bill amending a 1994 agreement between Latvia and Russia on the preservation of Soviet-era monuments in the country.
- Categories: Politics, Unrest, Conflicts & War, Social Issues, Human Interest
- Location: Riga, Latvia
- Event date: 23.08.2022
- Date published: 24.08.2022
- Author: Stringer
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 4651x3018px, 9.7Mb
- Job-ID: 768f06dfd40cc832