The mayor of Daugavpils, Latvia, Andrey Elksninsh, on his Facebook page (the owner of the Meta company was considered extremist and banned in Russia), said that he is ready to erect a previously desecrated monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in the city. against the destruction of protested in Riga.
According to the Elksnins, there is Pushkin Street in Daugavpils, and the poet’s friend, the Decembrist Wilhelm Küchelbecker, was serving his sentence in the local castle.
Earlier in Riga, several hundred activists from the Latvian Russian Union went on strike to protest the demolition of the Pushkin monument, a proposed dismantling supported by the Riga City Council Monuments Council.
Pushkin Monument at the end of 2022 soaked destroyed paint. After that, a petition was created on the portal of public initiatives demanding the demolition of the monument to the Russian poet. At the council on the monument of a city duma, the proposal for dismantling was supported.