History
Anušauskas. The power of a symbol
To believe or not to believe in the power of a symbol is something that everyone decides for themselves. Some time ago, 50 to 70 years ago, those who the secretly embroidered the Tricolour on […]
Forest Brothers
History
Freedom fighters v. Wikipedia. Is it a tool to distort history?
The free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is arguably the most common platform for public accumulation of information. Over time the founders struggled to deal with the increasingly large information flow. Eventually, the ability to edit Wikipedia […]
History
Kraujelis-Siaubūnas’ sister: “I cried much, so much searching and suddenly – joy”
The remains of Antanas Kraujelis-Siaubūnas, which were discovered in Vilnius’ Našlaičių Cemetery are important for all of Lithuania, however, the final partisan’s relatives responded the most sensitively. His sister, Janina Šyvokienė-Kraujelytė says she never gave […]
History
Lithuania’s last partisan Kraujelis-Siaubūnas remains found
Remains of Lithuania’s last partisan Antanas Kraujelis-Siaubūnas were found and identified in Vilnius today. Genetic studies have confirmed the identity of Antanas Kraujelis-Siaubūnas. In the search organized by the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of […]
CORPORATE
Baltic security in the age of Trump
The election of Donald J. Trump as US President on November 7, 2016 has brought a year of living dangerously for the Baltic States, as the region nervously awaited the arrival of a new Republican […]
History
History
Lithuanía’s response to Russia OSCE forum: Guerrilla fought Soviet terror
Lithuania’s ambassador has rejected Russia‘s reproaches on historical memory, emphasizing at an international diplomatic forum that the guerrilla resistance to Soviet occupation after World War II was legitimate. […]
History
Swedish ex-PM Bildt tweets: history of Baltic partisans was hidden for too long
Carl Bildt, a former Swedish prime minister and foreign minister, says that people in other parts of Europe know too little about the history of Lithuanian partisans who fought against Soviet rule. […]
CORPORATE
Russia, enraged by NATO film about the History of the Baltic States, insults partisans
After NATO showed a short film over social media about the “Forest Brothers” – the partisans in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia who resisted the Soviet occupation of Baltic States – Moscow reacted in official capacity. […]
Opinion
Russia couldn’t find a future but wants to manage the past
Next year Russia will hold presidential elections. But there are some problems. First of all, Russia is not a democratic state. In “Freedom House” rankings it belongs to the “not free” countries category. In 2017 the country received an evaluation of only 20 points from 100. It means, that in the short-term we should not expect free and democratic elections in Russia. […]
CORPORATE
Tapinas evaluated impact of Forest Brothers campaign on Facebook
“This move is just a small detail, but it displayed that when the time comes we can mobilise over ten thousand people. After all one of the lines of Russian propaganda is that Lithuanians, if […]
CORPORATE
Why did the NATO film on the “forest brothers” frighten the Kremlin more than tanks?
They could take it when we were accepted into NATO and even when Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė described Russia as a terrorist, the reaction was less hysterical. Things were very different with the release of […]
Uncategorized
Foreign Minister stresses importance of Facebook response to Russia
After thousands of Lithuanians responded on Facebook to the Moscow attempts to spread propaganda on post-war guerrilla in three Baltic states, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said that the Russian attempts to interpret history was a constant phenomenon, adding that the civil initiatives on social networks were very important. […]
CORPORATE
Darius Udrys uncovered how unprepared we are to discuss morality without outrage
I have written a short Facebook comment in Lithuanian regarding the latest meltdown within the local liberal circles, but this story is worth expanding on. The gist of the matter is that Remigijus Šimašius, the […]
CORPORATE
Russian film shown in Lithuania is suspected of being propaganda. Not all agree
Lithuania, 1940. A time when no one knew who was friend or foe; a time when even people close to each other were scared to trust each other. That’s how the distributors as of Friday […]
Society
Society
Former Soviet security officer sent to jail over 1956 operation on guerrilla leader
A Kaunas court on Thursday found former Soviet security officer Stanislovas Drelingas guilty of genocide and sentenced him to five years in prison for participating in a 1956 operation to detain Lithuanian guerrilla leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. […]
Opinion
Opinion: A letter to my international friends about 25 years of Lithuanian independence
I would like to share my celebration with you. Some of you might have noticed me wearing amber today – this is not to say that I am not an amber fan in general, but this time I was wearing my grandmother’s necklace for a reason. I thought I would share with you some thoughts that I wrote for my international friends. […]
Global LT
13 January commemoration – The Invisible Front in Washington
On Tuesday, 13 January, the Lithuanian community and a large number of American guests commemorated in Washington’s University Club the day in 1991 when the Soviet army attempted to overthrow Lithuania’s legitimate government in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The attendants paid tribute to the 14 people killed and the over one thousand unarmed Lithuanian civilians injured when the Soviet army and Special Forces attempted to overtake the Vilnius TV Tower and the Lithuanian parliament – the Seimas. […]
Society
Lithuanian court opens second case into murder of anti-Soviet resistance commander
Kaunas Regional Court on Tuesday opened one more case into the murder of Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. […]