• Several Latvian student corporations criticize placing a monument to Romantic era author Alexander Pushkin in one of the Rigas central parks

Several Latvian student corporations and their supporters sent an open letter to the President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers and the Riga City Council criticizing placing a monument to a famous Russian writer and poet of Romantic era Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) in one of the Rigas central parks named in the honour of famous Latvian publicist, linguist and teacher Atis Kronvalds (1837 - 1875). The authors of the letter claim that while Kronvalds represents Latvian and European values, Pushkin represents non-European values and alien culture, and believe that placing the monument was highly unethical, condemnable and impermissible. Vesti Segodnya