Nils Ushakov, the mayor of Riga, accepted a pro-Russian delegation from the occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. The renaming of the “Avenue of Dzhoxar Dudaev (Džohara Dudajeva gatve)” is on their agenda.

The Latvian website, Telegraf.lv wrote that the Constitution Protection Bureau (Latvian Counter Intelligence: SAB) said publically that the campaign to rename the Avenue of Dzhokhar Dudaev (Džohara Dudajeva gatve) in Riga, which was implemented on the eve of Latvian parliamentary elections was initiated by the Russian security services (FSB).