He announced this on his Twitter page.
Rinkevich wrote that he had sent an official note to the Russian embassy to suspend the agreement on social protection of Russian military pensioners and members of their families, which regulates the maintenance of memorial structures and monuments.
Earlier it was reported that the Riga City Council during the meeting voted for the demolition of the monument to the liberators of Riga.
Prior to this, the public and political figure of Latvia, journalist Vladimir Linderman, explained in an interview with RT why the Latvian parliament adopted amendments allowing the demolition of the monument to the liberators of Riga.