The affluent EU member states have seen population increases over the past decade and this has led to more rapid economic development among them. The less well-off member states experienced the opposite processes – a […]
Lithuania has some of the strictest alcohol control restrictions now but alcohol consumption in the country remains very high, says the Chairman of the public institution “European Social, Legal and Economic Projects” (ESTEP) Klaudijus Maniokas. […]
The Victims of the Second World War are honoured on 8th of May in Europe and Russia does it a day later. This is why it was surprising when the Russian ambassador to Lithuania Aleksandr […]
Hundreds of people gathered in Vilnius’ Antakalnis Cemetery on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War Two. […]
Russia has refused to hand summons to the Soviet Union‘s former leader Mikhail Gorbachev for testimony in the January 13 trial of attempted coup, a Vilnius court said on Tuesday. […]
Effective German cooperation with the Lithuanians became a death trap for the Jews of Lithuania. In Lithuania it was patriots – ethnic nationalists – who killed the Jews in the hopes of creating a strong ethnic state without Jews, Russians and Poles. This is what eminent German historian Dr. Christoph Dieckmann said in an exclusive interview with DELFI. Dr. Dieckmann who works at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main wrote the book “Germany’s Occupation Policy in Lithuania from 1941 to 1944”. […]
Former US vice-president Dick Cheney has warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened international security and had “designs on the Baltics.” […]
In her congratulatory message to the German-led NATO battalion in Lithuania, Germany’s Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday pledged to defend Lithuania’s freedom and independence. […]
If the transatlantic US-EU train continues to steam ahead in its current direction, it risks falling into the abyss, the head of the Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy department of […]
Spokesman for the Soviet Union‘s former president Mikhail Gorbachev has refused to comment on the Vilnius court’s ruling to question him in the January 13 attempted coup trial. […]
The Vilnius court hearing a trial of the January 13 attempted coup has decided to question former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. […]
Lithuania used to earmark about 6 percent of its national budget to the Soviet Union during the Soviet rule, which proves that Lithuania and other nations were not dependent on the Soviet Union but were its donors, a Latvian researcher has said. […]
Kaunas —Saturday marked the opening of a weeklong public program at the New Šančiai Synagogue in Kaunas, Lithuania, commemorating of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania. Organised by the International Centre for Litvak Photography, or IC4LP, the program is the launch and first instalment of a long-term artistic activity called the Kaunas Requiem, which involves the composition of an experimental music-based artwork that is proposed to run for a duration of seventy-five years. The program also offers the public an opportunity to engage with two of the centre’s ongoing remembrance projects on the theme of the lost Jewish culture of Kaunas and its surrounds, one photographic and one architectural. […]
Latvian experts are expected to next week present an analysis of archival financial documents, proving that Lithuania was a donor of the Soviet Union rather than its dependent. […]
As part of its effort to estimate the damage caused by the Soviet occupation, Lithuania wants to dig up archival documents to calculate the balance of financial flows between Vilnius and Moscow during that period, a method that has already been used by neighbouring Latvia, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reports. […]
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, will not be part of the court proceedings in Lithuania which try to bring to justice individuals responsible for civilian deaths during the attempted coup of January 1991 in Vilnius. […]
A Canadian photographer has spent 14 years travelling across what used to be the Soviet Union and taking pictures of bus stops which he says are fascinating and under-appreciated moments of creative flight. […]
Ministers of five Eastern European countries have issued a joint statement, calling for investigation into the crimes of communist regimes in Europe. […]
On August 23, Lithuania is celebrating the 27th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a defining moment in the Baltic countries’ movement for independence from the Soviet Union.
To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here. […]
Oleg Gazmanov, a Russian pop singer known for his glorification of the Kremlin and the Soviet Union in his songs, was not allowed to enter Lithuania on Wednesday.
To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here. […]
Copyright © 2023 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes