Almata, Kazachstan
Foreign affairs

Lithuania’s Mission Siberia will go to Kazakhstan this year

Lithuania’s annual Mission Siberia expedition, organized annually to tend to the burial cites of Lithuanian deportees in Russia, will go to Kazakhstan this year after Russia barred entry to the mission’s participants, the Lithuanian national radio Lietuvos Radijas said on Monday. […]

Jevdokimov, Siberia
Society

Over thousand people took part in deportee name readings across Lithuania

Over a thousand people in Lithuania took part in the readings in ten cities of the names of more than 100,000 people who were deported by the Soviets or imprisoned for political reasons as Lithuania marked the Day of Mourning and Hope on Thursday. […]

„Misija Sibiras 2017“ komanda keliauja į Rusiją
Uncategorized

Mission Siberia team leaves for Russia

Participants of the 16th Mission Siberia have left for Russia’s region of Irkutsk to clean up Lithuanian cemeteries and meet with deportation survivors and their descendants who still live in Siberia. […]

Cemetery of Soviet soldiers
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Russian students to visit Soviet army cemeteries in Lithuania

A group of university students from Russia are coming to Lithuania in mid-July to take care of the graves of Soviet soldiers, Lietuvos Žinios reports.

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