The obelisk which loomed over Victory Park in Riga, Latvia’s capital city, was constructed in 1985 to commemorate the Soviet Army’s victory over the Nazis. Its removal on Thursday was ...

has been demolished Thursday in the Latvian capital. (Kaspars Krafts/F64 via AP) ...

By Isabella Kwai The nearly 260-foot-tall obelisk, erected during the Soviet rule of Latvia, had towered in a park in the Baltic nation’s capital for nearly four decades. This week, it came ...

Latvia dismantled a Soviet-era monument in its capital city Riga following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite protests from the Baltic state's ethnic Russian minority to keep it. (Photo by ...

A controversial Soviet-era monument in the Latvian capital was brought down, despite protests from the Baltic state's ethnic Russian minority to keep it. A concrete obelisk topped with Soviet ...

A concrete obelisk topped by Soviet stars that was the centerpiece of a monument commemorating the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany was taken down Thursday in Latvia’s capital — the ...

A concrete obelisk topped by Soviet stars that was the centerpiece of a monument commemorating the Red Army's victory over Nazi Germany was taken down Thursday in Latvia's capital — the latest ...