USSR

  • Culture

New law may ease removal of Soviet sculptures from Vilnius Green Bridge

Minister of Culture Šarūnas Birutis signed a law amending the criteria for cultural artifacts to be listed as heritage. From…

10 years ago
  • Society

Belgian agencies to manually remove USSR from documents issued to Baltic citizens

The Brussels administrative center says it issues documents via its electronic system only, therefore, entries will be corrected manually until…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania finishes 13 January massacre investigation

Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office has finished the pre-trial investigation into the 13 January massacre case in which 69 people, citizens…

10 years ago
  • Uncategorized

The case of Yevtushenkov: One more look at Russia through the prism of clan battles

In the last essay of the series “Putin’s Russia”, I discussed the long efforts of Yevgeny Primakov’s clan to turn…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian ‘Soviet’ sausages cause stir in Russia

Lithuanian food producer Samsonas has decided to discontinue using the "Soviet" brand on a line of its meat products. While…

10 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Ukraine plans to set up park for Soviet monuments

The Ukrainian authorities do not want Soviet monuments to be chaotically removed in the country and therefore plan to set…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: What Kremlin gained and lost in Ukraine

As Russia's intervention in Ukraine seems to be entering a lower-intensity stage and reports are coming in about ceasefire agreements,…

10 years ago
  • Society

Swiss citizen detained in Vilnius for demonstration of Soviet symbols

A citizen of Switzerland was detained in Vilnius on Wednesday night for wearing clothes with Soviet symbols, the Police Department…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian court opens second case into murder of anti-Soviet resistance commander

Kaunas Regional Court on Tuesday opened one more case into the murder of Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. [...]

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

PM says Russia is trying to intimidate Lithuanians who refused to serve in Soviet army

The Russian request for legal assistance in the investigation of the case when Lithuanians refused to serve in the Soviet…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Legal expert: Russia indicates that it questions Lithuania’s independence

Attempts by Russia's law enforcement agencies to re-open criminal prosecution against Lithuanian nationals who avoided military service in the Soviet…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian foreign minister: Prosecution of Soviet army deserters is absurd as Russia has denied continuity with USSR

Russia's attempts to prosecute persons who refused to serve in the Soviet army is absurd, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

President’s adviser: Forcing Lithuanians to serve in Soviet army was a war crime

Chief advisor to the president on interior policy Virginija Budienė says that Lithuanian citizens who left or refused to serve…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Russia reopens criminal cases against Lithuanians who refused to serve in Soviet army

Russia has reopened 25-year-old cases that may lead to criminal charges against young people who refused to serve in the…

10 years ago
  • Society

Rūta Vanagaitė: Lithuania is still competing with the Holocaust

Rūta Vanagaitė’s project “The Paneriai Lullaby”, which lets you interact with Jewish culture for a day, is one of the…

10 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Comparing 1939 and 2014: Is this already war?

Seventy-five years ago this week, people in Europe and most of the world woke up to ominous newspaper headlines: "German…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Molotov-Ribbentrop and the birth of the Lithuanian-American alliance

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed 75 years ago is remembered as the beginning of an alliance between Hitler and Stalin that…

10 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Aggression in Ukraine: what consequences await its architects?

In the first article about Dmitry Rogozin’s clan, I discussed how this clan developed and gained strength. However, in the…

10 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: How lucky I was to squeeze into the Baltic Way chain

Perhaps few events in my 43-year-old’s life have been so vivid and, without exaggeration, future-defining as the Baltic Way. [...]

10 years ago
  • Society

Commemorative Baltic Way stands unveiled in Lithuania

Nine special information stands to mark the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way have been unveiled near the roads Vilnius-Panevėžys…

10 years ago