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Maxima looking to prove that Russia is behind boycott over high prices

Maxima LT, a leading retailer in Lithuania, plans to turn to the State Security Department (VSD) over next week’s planned boycott of supermarket chains that is being organized via social media. […]

Author Rita Gabis was born to a Lithuanian Catholic mother, and a Jewish father. (Photo Rina Castelnuovo, The Times of Israel)
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The realization your grandfather may have murdered thousands of Jews

“There is always someone in a family who pushes against silence,” says Rita Gabis, in whose new book Lithuania’s Holocaust skeletons come to light, exploring the 220,000 Lithuanian Jews killed during WWII — and the people who let it happen. […]

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OSCE praises Lithuanian president’s veto of law on court reporting

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has welcomed Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s decision to veto amendments to the Criminal Code criminalizing the disclosure of information from closed court proceedings. […]