The defense lawyer of Yuriy Mel, a Russian citizen arrested in Lithuania and now standing trial for his involvement in the January 1991 bloody crackdown on protesters in Vilnius, calls her client “a victim and hostage” to the Soviet political authorities of that time and describes the case as politicized. […]
The youngest son of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, discovered in the Lithuanian Central State Archives (LCSA) that some of the so-called “visas for life” issued by his father were forgeries. […]
The European security architecture needs to change, French President Emmanuel Macron declared during his latest visit to Finland. The changing world security architecture is forcing the European Union to adopt to the changing world. This is inevitable. However, the French President also called for an ‘update’ of the EU and Russia’s relationship. An ‘update’ should be welcomed, but the main question on whose terms this ‘update’ should be. Is the EU ready to accept an extended hand of friendship from the Kremlin? Certainly not and this is why. […]
The EU Delegation to the United States has expressed its support for Lithuania’s call on America’s retail giant Walmart to stop selling Soviet-themed T-shirts which insult the victims of the Soviet terror. […]
In December 2014 Barack Obama‘s administration warned Lithuania about a forthcoming US Senate report on secret CIA prisons. […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to meet with President Dalia Grybauskaitė and the Baltic prime ministers during her visit to Lithuania next week, the Lithuanian president’s office said on Friday. […]
A staff member of Kazakhstan’s embassy to Lithuania has been caught driving under the influence of alcohol in Vilnius, police said. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that law-enforcement officials must use all possibilities to investigate the circumstances surrounding allegations that the country hosted a secret CIA detention site more than a decade ago. […]
Lithuania’s ambassador to the United States has called on America’s retail giant Walmart to remove T-shirts with Soviet symbols from sale. […]
Poland is Lithuania’s closest strategic partner in the region, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said after meeting his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, in Krynica. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis was on Wednesday named Man of the Year 2017 in the Krynica Economic Forum in Poland. […]
Lithuania vowed on Wednesday to support Ireland on the border issue in Brexit negotiations. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Wednesday arrived in Poland to take part in the Krynica Economic Forum. […]
The maximum amount of the state’s additional spending on organizing Pope Francis‘ visit to Lithuania later this month goes down from 1.75 million euros to 1.45 million euros, Government Vice-Chancellor Alminas Mačiulis said on Tuesday. […]
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, will pay an official visit to Israel in mid-October. […]
Latvijas Dzelzcels (Latvian Railways) demands 57 million euros from Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) over a railway track to Renge that was dismantled a decade ago. […]
Hungary’s new defense attaché to Lithuania was accredited on Monday, the Defense Ministry said. […]
A cross marking the site where a church named after Pope John Paul II will be built in the Lithuanian capital’s Pašilaičiai neighborhood will be blessed on Tuesday, on the 25th anniversary of the pontiff’s visit to the country, Vilnius Archdiocese said. […]
Lithuania was a donor of the Soviet Union rather than its dependent in the first post-war decade of occupation, LRT Television has reported, citing research commissioned by the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania. […]
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