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 (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.

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 ...

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 ...