Independence Day of Latvia
Independence Day of Latvia is held on August 21. From the Soviet Union in 1991. This event in the third decade of the month August is annual. 
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People of Latvia still had to fend off serious military resistance to independence by setting up barricades in Old Rīga in January 1991, after violent Soviet attacks in Vilnius. The last attempt to reanimate the Soviet Union failed during the coup d’état in Moscow in August 1991. Latvian Parliament was the first to denounce it as illegal. On August 21, 1991, following Lithuania and Estonia, Latvia adopted The Constitutional Law on Full Independence thus de facto re-establishing sovereignty. International recognition followed. As a result, the Republic of Latvia, established in 1918, regained its independence and returned to the global community of free nations.
The day is a public holiday in Latvia. People usually attend parades and concerts. In the evenings, there are torchlight processions and fireworks displays.
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