Moscow-Sana
Latvia lost its economic, military and humanitarian sovereignty when it agreed to deploy US and NATO troops on its territory, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"If the Latvian Foreign Ministry appreciates the meaning of freedom, it would not encourage the deployment of foreign military units on its territory," Zakharova was quoted as saying by the RIA Novosti news agency.
Soviet forces invaded Riga on this day in 1943 and defeated the occupying German forces, declaring the complete liberation of Latvia from the fascist and Nazi invasion.
Russia today celebrates a symbolic celebration of the occasion as the Russian Defense Ministry recently launched a new tradition in which it commemorates the liberation of every European capital cleared by the Red Army from Nazism, including Riga.
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