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The ruling coalition of the Riga City Council agreed with the initiative to urgently demolish the monument to Pushkin

4/25/2023, 4:11:38 PM

Highlights: The ruling coalition of the Riga City Council agreed with the initiative of the Kods Rīgai bloc to demolish the monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in Riga. "Pushkin's days in Kronvalda Park are numbered," said Linda Ozola, Deputy Speaker of the City Council. The bloc Kaspars Adijans is in favor of demolishing the monument by May 4 in order to "exclude any possibility of using it" for the celebration of May 9.

The ruling coalition of the Riga City Council agreed with the initiative of the Kods Rīgai bloc to demolish the monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in Riga, said Linda Ozola, Deputy Speaker of the City Council.

RIA Novosti writes about it.

"Pushkin's days in Kronvalda Park are numbered. At the initiative of Kods Rīgai, the Riga City Council coalition agreed that this illegally erected monument should disappear from the urban environment of Riga, and this should happen promptly," she said.

According to the representative of the bloc Kaspars Adijans, Kods Rīgai is in favor of demolishing the monument by May 4 in order to "exclude any possibility of using it" for the celebration of May 9.

On December 9, the representative of Vilniaus BDT, Ruta Leonavičienė, said that the demolition of six stelae of the memorial to Soviet soldiers at the Antakalnis cemetery in Vilnius was completed.

In January, Dmitry Belik, a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, commented on the statement of the Latvian Foreign Ministry that one of the priorities of the republic's foreign activity is "the defeat of Russia."