"Separate Guard Salute Division of the Western Military District. Artillery Marshal Vladimir Mikhalkin gave an artillery salute in honor of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Riga from Nazi invaders, ”TASS quoted the press service of the Western Military District.
More than two thousand fireworks of 50 kinds were released into the sky.
Earlier, the Latvian Foreign Ministry called the fireworks inappropriate on October 13 in Moscow on the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of Riga from Nazi invaders.
The Russian ambassador to Latvia, Evgeny Lukyanov, said that Russia will not change plans to hold a salute in Moscow in honor of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Riga from Nazi invaders, despite criticism from the Latvian Foreign Ministry.