Society
Lithuanian president pays tribute to WWII victims
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday paid tribute to victims of WWII at Paneriai Memorial, stressing the need to preserve peace today. […]
History
Society
Lithuania marks end of World War Two
Lithuania marks the end of World War Two on Friday, with the country’s president, prime minister and speaker of the Seimas attending commemorative events. […]
Opinion
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Lithuanian president to join end of WWII commemoration in Poland
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is travelling to Poland on Thursday to attend, alongside other European leaders, commemorative events marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. […]
Foreign affairs
Why Lithuanian officials are not going to Moscow on 9 May
On 8 May each year, the world pays tribute to the victims of World War Two. The following day, 9 May, Russia celebrates its Victory Day with pompous parades of tanks and displays of arms. This year, on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, many Western leaders turned down invitations to come to Moscow, sending instead their lower-ranking representatives, mostly their ambassadors, to Russia. […]
Society
President’s office calls for caution in publishing lists of KGB collaborators
Chief advisor to the Lithuanian president on foreign policy, Jovita Neliupšienė, says that the names of people who voluntarily admitted their collaboration with the KGB may be revealed only after the situation is thoroughly analysed. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Why we have not, do not and will not talk about Holocaust in Lithuania
Vilijampolė, Kaunas, winter. The project “Being a Jew”. A group of thirty teachers led by a Jewish guide are standing in the former Kaunas ghetto. Houses, garages, storage spaces, wood piles where, during the war, thousands of Jews were herded like animals by the Nazis, where Jewish children played, and from where they were later taken to a square or to one of the Kaunas forts and shot. […]
Society
Lithuania’s ruling parties consider releasing lists of KGB collaborators
The political council of Lithuania’s ruling coalition is discussing the possibility of publishing lists of persons who have admitted their secret collaboration with Soviet security structures. […]
Culture
Lithuania to mark end of World War II on 8 May
Lithuania will celebrate the end of World War II in Europe on 8 May, with official events to be attended by the president and the prime minister. […]
Society
Lithuanian court finds ex-KGB agent guilty of genocide in guerilla leader case
A Kaunas court on Thursday found former KGB officer Ylya Vorobyov guilty for complicity in the 1956 detention of former guerilla chief Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas and sentenced him to two years of restricted freedom. […]
North Korean leader cancels trip to Moscow for end of WWII event
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will not be coming to Moscow for the Victory Day celebrations on 9 May, ria.ru reports. […]
Politics
President Grybauskaitė to mark end of WWII anniversary in Poland and Lithuania
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Poland and will also pay respect to war victims in Lithuania. […]
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Lithuania only EU state to fully boycott 9 May celebrations in Moscow
Lithuania will probably be the only country of the European Union (EU) to fully boycott the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on 9 May, diplomats tell BNS. […]
Opinion
Lithuanians and Jews: What’s changed and what hasn’t over the last 40 years?
Tomas Venclova, a prominent Lithuanian author, poet, translator and professor of literature at Yale University, delivered the following remarks at a conference on Holocaust education held at Vilnius City Hall on April 17, 2015, the final event in the Being a Jew project. […]
Society
Culture
Belt believed to belong to Grand Duke Vytautas on display in Vilnius
Segments of a belt, believed to be worn by Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas, go on display at the Grand Dukes Palace in Vilnius. […]
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Baltic states the line Russia will not dare to cross?
Norman M. Naimark, professor at Stanford University, is one of the most authoritative experts on Central and Eastern Europe in the United States whose research interests include the region’s modern history, genocides and ethnic cleansings that happened here. […]
Society
March of the Living honours Holocaust victims in Paneriai, Lithuania
Hundreds of people attended the traditional March of the Living on the Holocaust Memorial Day from a railway station to the memorial where 70,000 Jews were massacred during World War Two. […]
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