Minister of Culture Šarūnas Birutis signed a law amending the criteria for cultural artifacts to be listed as heritage. From now on objects marked with Soviet or Nazi symbols will not be included in the Register of Cultural Heritage. […]
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office has finished the pre-trial investigation into the 13 January massacre case in which 69 people, citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, have been named suspects. […]
In the last essay of the series “Putin’s Russia”, I discussed the long efforts of Yevgeny Primakov’s clan to turn Ukraine’s conflict in the direction of conditional peace rather than war by imposing certain conditions and concluding everything with a peace agreement that is so useful to Russia. […]
The Ukrainian authorities do not want Soviet monuments to be chaotically removed in the country and therefore plan to set up a special park of Soviet monuments, similar to the one existing in Lithuania, Ukrainian Minister of Culture Yevhen Nyshchuk said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
A citizen of Switzerland was detained in Vilnius on Wednesday night for wearing clothes with Soviet symbols, the Police Department said on Thursday. […]
Kaunas Regional Court on Tuesday opened one more case into the murder of Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. […]
The Russian request for legal assistance in the investigation of the case when Lithuanians refused to serve in the Soviet army in the early 1990s is an attempt to intimidate them, says Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
Attempts by Russia‘s law enforcement agencies to re-open criminal prosecution against Lithuanian nationals who avoided military service in the Soviet army in 1990-1991 has no legal basis, says international law expert Erika Leonaitė. […]
Russia‘s attempts to prosecute persons who refused to serve in the Soviet army is absurd, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. […]
Chief advisor to the president on interior policy Virginija Budienė says that Lithuanian citizens who left or refused to serve in the Soviet army after Lithuania declared independence from the USSR in March 1990 did not commit a crime. […]
Russia has reopened 25-year-old cases that may lead to criminal charges against young people who refused to serve in the Soviet army in 1990-1991, shows a request for legal assistance received by the Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office. […]
Rūta Vanagaitė’s project “The Paneriai Lullaby”, which lets you interact with Jewish culture for a day, is one of the most successful projects financed by the European Commission (EC). […]
Seventy-five years ago this week, people in Europe and most of the world woke up to ominous newspaper headlines: “German Army Attacks Poland; Cities Bombed, Port Blocked; Danzig is Accepted into Reich”, “War! Nazi Bombs Rain on Polish Cities”. This was the start of the Second World War. […]
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed 75 years ago is remembered as the beginning of an alliance between Hitler and Stalin that divided Eastern Europe between the two totalitarian dictators and opened the way to World War II. That it certainly was, but the accord had another impact as well: reaction to it marked the beginning of an alliance between Lithuania and her Baltic neighbours with the United States. […]
In the first article about Dmitry Rogozin’s clan, I discussed how this clan developed and gained strength. However, in the context of aggression against Ukraine, it is crucial to focus attention not just on Rogozin and his clan’s ideology or rhetoric. […]
Perhaps few events in my 43-year-old’s life have been so vivid and, without exaggeration, future-defining as the Baltic Way. […]
Nine special information stands to mark the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way have been unveiled near the roads Vilnius-Panevėžys and Panevėžys-Pasvalys-Riga in Lithuania on Friday. […]
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