Latvia donates drunk drivers’ cars to Ukraine’s war effort
Riga, LatviaReuters Latvia began seizing cars from heavily drunk drivers this year, and as hundreds of vehicles began overfilling impound lots, decided to send them to Ukrainian military and hospitals. Seven cars were driven in a snowstorm onto a trailer and out of a state impound lot on Wednesday, destined for Ukraine. Reinis Poznaks, founder […]
Essay: Soviet monuments are being toppled – this gives the spaces they occupied a new meaning
HELEN PARISH, a professor of history at the University of Reading, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – says the removal or destruction of Soviet-era monuments is a powerful reminder of the complex relationship that exists between history, memory and politics…
Snapshot: The Freedom Monument, Riga, Latvia
See PRIYANK P’s image…