Over 4,300 people on Saturday took part in a traditional run through the streets of Vilnius to pay tribute to the victims of the Soviet army’s bloody attack on unarmed civilians in the Lithuanian capital in January 1991. […]
Again, this article will not be related to the structure, clans, their interrelations, and KGB basis in Putin’s current regime. This essay is a sequel of the previous piece which aimed to take another glimpse at Putin’s suspicious links with international terrorism. […]
In deciding whether Latvian President Andris Bērziņš should attend Russia‘s Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 9, he should take into account the fact that Latvia is presiding over the Council of the European Union, said Latvia’s Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview to the LNT show “900 sekundes”. […]
What kind of a country bids farewell to its currency for the third time over less than 25 years? […]
Russia has consistently applied its own interpretation of history and dose of propaganda vis-à-vis the Baltic states. In the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the main source of tension in the propaganda sphere was the interpretation of Soviet history, in particular Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has received an invitation from Russia to attend festivities to mark 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory against Nazi Germany but will not attend the events in Moscow next year. […]
An international panel of experts has recommended to the European Commission to approve Kaunas City Municipality’s application ‘Kaunas of 1919-1940’ and to include the city in the list of the European Heritage Label sites. The European Commission will adopt a decision by 15 February 2015. […]
We offer you a recent interview with Grigory Kanovich who several weeks won the National Prize of Lithuania for Art and Culture and was named an Honorary Citizen of his hometown, Jonava. […]
A special monument, named “The Crown of Unity of World Lithuanians” is set to be erected at the open-air Park of Europe in Lithuania to mark the 100th anniversary of the country’s restoration of independence. […]
It was all over the world news when Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė publicly stated that Russia was a “terrorist country”. She later explained that Russia “has attributes of a terrorist state”. […]
There are many misconceptions about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is being negotiated between the United States and the European Union, says Charles Ries, vice president of the Rand Corporation. […]
Colloquium Vilnense invites you to a session at Vilnius University on the survival of Lithuanian Jews in the GULag and their way to Displaced Persons Camps after the end of the war. Violeta Davoliūtė (Vilnius) and Markus Nesselrodt (Berlin) will present their ongoing research. […]
A treasure of 92 US dollars and golden roubles was discovered underground in Vilnius old town this past summer during tests of foundations of a 19-century building. […]
Russia ripping off Crimea from Ukraine has historical precedents that Lithuania experienced first-hand, according to historian Vytautas Jokubauskas, who spoke at a Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union conference on civil defence during hybrid war. […]
13 June 2014 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of ambassador Stasys Lozoraitis and 2 August marked his 90th birthday. Such anniversaries are often a good time to reflect on the life and career. […]
The ‘short 20th century’ — as opposed to ‘the long 19th century’ — was characterized by high levels of destruction. Wars, ideological conflicts, population mobilizations, massive displacements, and genocides lay at the heart of the emergence of modernity across the continent. These questions are addressed in a seminar series organized by Vilnius University and European Humanities University, “Violence and Social Change in Lithuania, Belarus, and Central-Eastern Europe in the 20th Century”. […]
On Friday, 14 November, The Invisible Front was presented at The Music Box Theatre, which is Chicago’s premiere venue for independent and foreign films. The story of one of the twentieth century’s most significant underground resistance movements attracted a packed hall of Lithuanians residing in the region. […]
Lithuania will vote against the Russia-proposed resolution at the United Nations (UN) that aims to downplay the history of the Baltic states and justify aggression under the disguise of anti-Nazi efforts, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. […]
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office has finished the pre-trial investigation into the 13 January massacre case in which 69 people, citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, have been named suspects. […]
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