The new chairwoman of the State Cultural Heritage Commission will look into the fate of the soviet Green Bridge sculptures that were removed from central Vilnius last summer. […]
Ping pong of historical references pepper European Parliament debate on Poland reforms and European Commission investigation […]
Lithuania’s Court of Appeals has rejected prosecutors’ appeal against the acquittal of a former Soviet militia officer in a war crime case. […]
An interactive musical park bench has been given to Vilnius by the Polish Embassy to commerorate the closing of the year dedicated to the composer, politician and diplomat Mykolas Kleopas Oginskis (Michał Kleofas Ogiński). […]
In a new memoir, former Swedish diplomat Bo J. Theutenberg alleges that Soviet and Eastern European intelligence infiltration of Swedish post-war society was far more extensive than previously understood and that Sweden’s Prime Minister Olof Palme may have been a key target. He also warns about the continuing and serious ramifications for the current Swedish-Russian political relationship. […]
Presidents of Georgia, Ukraine and Estonia have congratulated Lithuania on January 13, when the country celebrates the 25th anniversary since it defended its independence from Soviet forces. […]
Linas Muliolis was your average young Lithuanian born in the USA. The son of World War II refugees, Linas grew up in Cleveland’s Lithuanian community. In January 1991, he was just a month away from turning 21 years old and was in Vilnius during the historic January 13 events. […]
Lithuanians all over the world stand in solidarity on the 25th anniversary commemoration of January 1991 events. […]
“Sometimes I think, how come we weren’t a least bit afraid – even for my husband, who was a Soviet army conscript at the time?” Odeta Barkauskienė, a factory worker at the time of the turbulent events of January 1991, remembers her spontaneous decision to join civil guards of a broadcasting station near Kaunas. […]
Three Klaipėda City councilmen remember January 13, 1991 – the memories don’t fade. […]
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the events of January 13th, 1991, a commemorative international marathon called “On the road of life and death” was held on Saturday in Lithuania and in capital cities all over the world. […]
The issue re-appeared rather unexpectedly. On 5 November, after a meeting in Riga, the Justice Ministers of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania released a statement, in which they peremptorily declared that their countries had been occupied by and had been “exploited for political and economic needs” by the Soviet Union. The “enormous demographic and socio-economic losses”, caused by “the totalitarian communist occupation regime of the USSR.” should be “calculated in a scientifically-justified manner”, they said. The final step would be that they would “claim legally and factually justified compensation from the Russian Federation”. […]
During World War Two, Nazi Germany‘s submarines would regularly attack Allied forces. In response, the Allies formed special brigades to monitor German submarines. One of these brigades included a serviceman named Zenonas Lukošius, a Lithuanian expatriate. He has become a hero of WWII. […]
A group of Lithuanian politicians and activists have proposed that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and its subsidiary in Lithuania – the Communist Party of Lithuania (LKP) – be recognized “a criminal organisation, organiser and executor of the genocide of the Lithuanian people, responsible for extermination, deportation and other repressions against Lithuanian residents”. […]
The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum presents the exhibit, Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad – In Unum – 10 Years of Investigations, from October 1 to November 22, 2015. […]
On 24 September, representatives of the British, Jewish and Lithuanian communities in the United Kingdom as well as members of parliament and foreign diplomats residing in London gathered at the Embassy to commemorate the victims of the Shoah in Lithuania, the Embassy reports. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday awarded 47 people with Life Saving Crosses for saving Jews from the Nazis during World War Two. The majority of them were awarded posthumously. […]
After President Dalia Grybauskaitė changed a 2000 decree on state awards for Lithuania’s post-war anti-Soviet resistance fighters, one partisan, Pranas Končius-Adomas, was stripped of the Order of the Cross of Vytis, a decoration conferred on people who defended Lithuania’s freedom and independence. […]
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