Mission Siberia
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Latvians and Estonians join Lithuania’s Mission Siberia

Young people from Latvia and Estonia will this year join Lithuania’s Mission Siberia 2015 project, during which they will travel to Russia‘s Tomsk region to clean up the graves of Baltic deportees sent to Siberia under Stalin. […]

Alexander Zaldostanov
Uncategorized

Russian bikers’ flirtation with Kremlin politics sparks protest from Lithuanian fellows

Global politics is undermining the international solidarity of the biker community. Lithuanian bikers have declared they do not want to see members of the Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves MC, including its leader Alexander Zaldostanov, in their country, because the Russians have trampled on a central principle of the biker movement – stay away from politics. […]

Discussion at Lithuanian Embassy in Stockholm
Global LT

Lithuanian embassy in Stockholm holds discussion about historical memory

On 13 November, the Embassy of Lithuania in Stockholm in cooperation with the Swedish Lithuanian youth community and Ukrainian student representatives organized a discussion about historical memory. The focus of the event was to discuss the importance of historical memory, commemorate the victims of totalitarian regimes and to draw attention to current political developments in eastern Ukraine. […]

Kęstutis Girnius
Opinion

Opinion: Information war – no need for mobilization yet

The heralds of information wars are disconcerted, identify ever more battlefields, call on proper mobilisation. The latest example is the response of Aleksandras Matonis to a report aired on the Russian TV, in which members of the expedition Mission Russia have been referred to as tourists following the traces of the WW II victims and reportedly hoping that in the future joint Russian-Lithuanian groups would be travelling Europe to pay homage to the fallen Soviet soldiers. The leader of the expedition said such hope was actually expressed by the Russian journalist. […]

Society

Mission Siberia 2014 back in Lithuania

The team of Mission Siberia 2014 has returned to Lithuania after two weeks of taking care of cemeteries of Lithuanian deportees in Krasnoyarsk region, Russia. […]