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The Polish National Institute of Memory (IPN) destroys four Soviet monuments to the Red Army in the villages of Glubczyce, Byczyna, Bobolice and Mokre. IMAGES
Elderly athlete Alexandra Burtseva doesn't look a day over 70 and moves like a 45-year-old, but she actually celebrated her 91st birthday this year. The fit senior citizen continues to teach physical education to students at the Kursk Polytechnic University despite her advanced age and loves every second of her job instructing people many decades younger than her.
Around 150 people protest outside the Russian embassy in the Latvian capital Riga, as Russian citizens vote in a presidential election set to hand Vladimir Putin another six years in the Kremlin. Putin, a 71-year-old former KGB agent, has been in power since the last day of 1999 and is set to extend his grip over the country until at least 2030. IMAGES
Dozens of people lay flowers at a monument in Moscow to the victims of the Soviet labour camps in a silent tribute to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who died in prison. Dozens of police officers patrol the square around the monument following reports of dozens of arrests at similar tributes across Russia. IMAGES
File images of the Latvian MEP Tatjana Zdanoka who has been accused by a press investigation of spying for Moscow over the past two decades. The European Parliament has announced that it has opened an investigation into the MEP. According to the Russian investigative website The Insider (based in Latvia), Tatjana Zdanoka, a non-attached MEP elected in 2004, is alleged to have collaborated with the Russian security services (FSB) from 2005. IMAGES
Ukraine's Zelensky is welcomed by Latvia's president Edgars Rinkēvičs on the third leg of a tour of staunch Baltic allies, after visiting Lithuania and Estonia as part of efforts to bolster support for Kyiv with the war nearing its second anniversary. IMAGES