Born and raised in Latvia, he has spent more than ... was arrested after waving a Russian flag and giving a speech in front of Riga's huge Soviet war memorial on 10 May. He was attending an ...

The streets were decorated by Latvian flags, this was a holiday ... his Twitter that the "elections" "took place in the occupied Soviet Latvia in violation of the Constitution." ...

The Russian and the Polish flags were flying at the Katyn memorial, erected in memory of the 25,000 Poles, mostly army officers deemed anti-communist, massacred by the Soviet Union's political ...

The Baltic state was invaded by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during ... Red Army - marched back into Latvia. "I was impressed by the ones with the red flags and the fists.

A handful of veterans, flanked by hundreds of supporters waving Latvian flags, gathered around Freedom ... who collaborated with Germany against the Soviet Union. Several protesters from the ...

He said that concerns the monument to Soviet Army soldiers that liberated Soviet Latvia and Riga from Nazi ... Dmitry Peskov said US plotting false-flag operation so it can go to war with Iran ...

Not far enough from the center of the Latvian capital, Riga, there’s an archetypal example of this genre: overbearing, grandiloquent, and brutal. It dates from the later years of the Soviet ...

Overall, Russian casualties -- killed or wounded in action -- are believed to exceed 500,000 according to Western estimates, ...

A court in Russia’s Bashkortostan fined school director Svetlana Khakimova 2,000 rubles (about $20) for keeping the book ...

Soviet World War II victory flags are appearing in Russian-occupied Ukrainian towns, CNN reported, as Western intelligence says Russia likely wants to secure major progress in its invasion ahead ...