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Flu claims first victim in Lithuania
Flu continues to spread in Lithuania with 16 municipalities out of 60 having declared epidemics. One death from flu-related complications was reported on Monday. […]
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Vilnius should have monument to people who saved Jews, says Jewish community leader
The Lithuanian Jewish community would like to see a monument built in Vilnius to people who were saving Jews during World War Two. […]
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Lithuanian prosecutors ‘should look into list of Holocaust perpetrators’
The leader of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, Faina Kukliansky, says that the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre should submit the list of Holocaust perpetrators to prosecutors for scrutiny. […]
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Genocide research centre may publish list of suspected Lithuanian Holocaust collaborators
The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) has announced that it may publish a list of individuals who had worked in police institutions during the Nazi occupation of Europe. This would amount to a list of individuals who may have contributed to the Holocaust in Lithuania, though it would not be clear in what capacity they may have collaborated. […]
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Propaganda must be fought with democratic methods – OSCE representative
The fight against the propaganda in democratic countries must adhere to democratic principles and governments should refrain from blocking contrarian opinions where possible, said Dunja Mijatović, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) representative for media freedom, who is visiting Lithuania. […]
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“We never called Lithuanians a nation of Jew-shooters” says community leader
Jews living in Lithuania never said Lithuanians were a nation of Jew-shooters and don’t plan on doing so, but Lithuania should acknowledge the topic of the Holocaust, Faina Kukliansky, the leader of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, said in a press release issued in the wake of heated discussions on the Holocaust. […]
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Kalashnikov fugitive sentenced to 4 years in prison
Igoris Molotkovas, who sparked a massive manhunt operation in Vilnius last November after escaping police with a Kalashnikov rifle, received a custodial sentence on Monday. He will spend four years and four months in prison. […]
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Soviet defence minister indicted in January 13 case
Soviet Union‘s Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov has been named in the so-called January 13 case in Lithuania. He is accused of establishing in late 1990 an organized group of 160 army officers and political figures, aimed at re-incorporating Lithuania into the USSR, according to the indictment drafted by Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office. […]
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January 13 coup suspects may be tried in absentia, Vilnius court rules
Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian citizens charged in the January 13, 1991, coup in Lithuania case may stand trial in absentia, a Vilnius court ruled on Friday. […]
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Population of Lithuania shrank by 33k last year
Over the last year, Lithuania’s population has shrunk by 33,000 people, Statistics Lithuania says. It is the size of a mid-sized town. […]
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Author explores Holocaust in Lithuania: ‘Our own boys used to go shooting people after school’
Author Rūta Vanagaitė recently presented a book, “Our Own”, about the Holocaust in Lithuania. Although historians have been researching the topic for years, the Lithuanian society has yet to realize and acknowledge the part their compatriots, ordinary Lithuanians, played in the mass killings of Jews, Vanagaitė says. […]