In [[Latvia]], police detained a woman on May 9, 2022 who tried to lay flowers on the monument to commemorate Russian soldiers who liberated the country from Nazism in 1944.<ref> https://youtu.be/ZLyalA7ti6Q</ref>
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Although Victory Day celebrations over the Russian defeat of Nazism were officially banned in Latvia in 2022, in fact they turned out to be almost a “victory week” in [[Riga]], accompanied by aggressive rhetoric glorifying Russia.
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Police detained a woman on May 9, 2022 who tried to lay flowers on the monument to commemorate Russian soldiers who liberated the country from Nazism in 1944.<ref> https://youtu.be/ZLyalA7ti6Q</ref>