where it was placed decades ago as a war memorial, the massive Victory Memorial (more formally, the “Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders”) is ...

Estonia has decided to remove Soviet-era war monuments from public places. The move is aimed at preventing them "from mobilising more hostility in society and tearing open old wounds" following ...

During World War II, an unlikely team of soldiers was charged with identifying and protecting European cultural sites, monuments, and buildings from Allied bombing. Officially named the Monuments, ...

R ussian police have put Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and other senior officials on the wanted list because of her efforts to remove Soviet-era World War II monuments in the Baltic ...