In his article, Alvydas Nikžentaitis (a Lithuanian historian recently appointed as the director of the Lithuanian Institute of History – ed.) starts with a review of key trends based on a short period of Lithuanian […]
Often during state celebrations and various events, we can witness a number of politicians singing the Lithuanian hymn with a serious face and their hand to their heart. One of the stanzas goes as follows: […]
“We often choose to not react to such matters. There is no point to give the same responses repeatedly to the same people – Zuroff, Katz. There is neither desire, nor capacities, nor, finally, any […]
Vigilijus Sadauskas, Lithuania’s ombudsman for academic ethics and procedures, says that he offered a cash reward for a thesis about Jews’ involvement in crimes due to a book on Jew-killers by Rūta Vanagaitė. […]
The Vilnius Regional Court ruled on Wednesday that there were no grounds for opening a pre-trial investigation regarding statements by Rūta Vanagaitė, an author and public relations specialist, about Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. […]
One of the most significant events for Lithuania has been the deployment of the German-led NATO battalion. This was a very concrete deterrence measure against Russian aggression, with the latter performing the Zapad military exercise […]
While author Rūta Vanagaitė who slandered partisan leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas is travelling around the US and is telling American Lithuanians, Litvaks and other Americans stories of a supposed campaign against her in her homeland, Israel […]
Rūta Vanagaitė is visiting the US and reading lectures on her book Mūsiškiai and this is also raising waves across the Atlantic. Protesters were watched by the police at a lecture in Cleveland, while after […]
The publication The Holocaust in Nazi occupied Eastern and Western European states: research and memory was presented in the Kaunas President Valdas Adamkus library-museum. It features works of thirteen foreign scientists, among which there are […]
It is not suitable to grant state honours to those who contributed to the holocaust in any way says US Millersville University history professor emeritus Saulius Sužiedėlis, who proposes for Lithuania to review who monuments […]
Lithuania is constantly defending itself against accusations or dubious statements that Lithuanians collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust. At the same time it’s usually in the archives of historians where information is discovered about Lithuanians who, before anybody else, were opening up a path for refugees who were Jewish and of other nationalities, Lietuvos Žinos writes. […]
Though the scandal caused by author Rūta Vanagaitė‘s statements about partisan leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas has subsided, the head of the Lithuanian Jewish Community Faina Kukliansky believes that this calm is only temporary. The English translation […]
The recent major scandal which arose after Rūta Vanagaitė‘s attempt to slander the post-war partisan leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas and with him cast a shadow over the entire post-war partisan movement is one of the topics […]
Recent remarks by Rūta Vanagaitė, an author and public relations specialist, about Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, a Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander, cannot be recognized as a crime as there is no evidence that she deliberately made false statements with the aim of undermining people’s respect, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Friday. […]
Around a decade ago Mindaugas Murza and his small group of Nazi sympathisers would often arrange protests or counter-protests that received much attention from the news media even though Murza had little serious role in […]
Rūta Vanagaitė herself accused Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas of untrue things, meanwhile her defenders accuse Lithuania. The loudest voice here is that of the European Jewish Congress whose head is a Kremlin-leaning oligarch who has businesses in […]
Rūta Vanagaitė thought she would advertise her new book by slandering partisans, while Gintautas Paluckas and his entourage are using R. Vanagaitė’s scandal to announce their shift to the left because they lack any real […]
Writer and journalist Rūta Vanagaitė admits in a letter released on Friday that she was mistaken and regrets her “hasty and arrogant public comments” regarding resistance leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. She admits she was mistaken in […]
Rūta Vanagaitė, author and public relations specialist, on Friday admitted having made misleading statements about Lithuania’s anti-Soviet resistance leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas and publicly apologized for her “hasty and arrogant comments.” […]
Dear Christoph, I write to you because we have known one another for a number of years and interacted closely for a time. I read your comment on the Delfi news portal and let me […]
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