Fashion TV founder and owner Michel Adam has chosen Vilnius, Lithuania, as the site for a full feature film. Shanghai 1939: Exodus from Vienna is based on his mother’s true life story during World War II. […]
On 27 January 2015, Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, together with the delegation led by the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in Auschwitz, Poland. […]
Latvian President Andris Berzins says it is impossible for him to attend the 9 May “victory day” celebrations in Moscow. […]
Second-degree state pensions were granted to 98 Lithuanian residents who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, the Social Security and Labour Ministry said. […]
Alexander Udaltsov, the Russian Ambassador to Lithuania, has released a public letter, congratulating the country on “the 70th anniversary of Lithuania’s liberation from the Germans-fascists”. The ambassador also makes references to topical issues of today, like the conflict in Ukraine, that are designed to provoke controversy, a Lithuanian political observer says. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Warsaw on Tuesday to attend a memorial day of Holocaust victims at the Auschwitz concentration camp together with other state leaders and representatives of international organizations. […]
The Russian Federation’s propaganda and other aggressive actions in the information space have recently been the subject of buoyant discussion within the context of events in eastern Ukraine. Crucial, however, to an in-depth and factual debate on this subject is to take a look at the historical context and roots of the new Russian propaganda. […]
Soon the time will come when Russia will issue an official apology for Soviet occupation from the stand of the Lithuanian Seimas, according to Petras Vaitiekūnas, Lithuania’s former ambassador to Ukraine and one-time foreign minister. He said this at a solemn parliamentary sitting on Tuesday to mark the 24th anniversary of the 13 January 1991 events. […]
In deciding whether Latvian President Andris Bērziņš should attend Russia‘s Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 9, he should take into account the fact that Latvia is presiding over the Council of the European Union, said Latvia’s Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview to the LNT show “900 sekundes”. […]
Russia is already preparing for large-scale celebrations to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, and Latvian President Andris Bērziņš has been invited to the event as well. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has received an invitation from Russia to attend festivities to mark 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory against Nazi Germany but will not attend the events in Moscow next year. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has recently called Russia a terrorist state. She is not alone in saying so. […]
Russia ripping off Crimea from Ukraine has historical precedents that Lithuania experienced first-hand, according to historian Vytautas Jokubauskas, who spoke at a Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union conference on civil defence during hybrid war. […]
Six years ago, when Russia attacked Georgia and tore off the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Western countries were, as always, “very concerned”, sent out their observers, provided humanitarian support and Nocolas Sarozy, the then President of France, volunteered to mediate in settling the conflict. […]
Bomb disposal troops from the Lithuanian army‘s Juozas Vitkus Engineer Battalion have discovered a record number of around 2,000 World War Two cannonballs in the western Klaipėda District over the last few days, the country’s Ministry of National Defence said on Friday. […]
As the Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday held a commemorative sitting to mark the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Kaunas and Šiauliai Ghettos, Tobijas Jefetas, chairman of the Lithuanian union of former ghetto and concentration camp prisoners, shared his memories as one of very few Jewish children who survived the war. […]
On the National Memorial Day for the Genocide of the Jews, President Dalia Grybauskaitė has awarded Life Saving Crosses to those who, despite mortal danger to their lives and their families’ lives, rescued Jews during World War II from the Nazis. […]
Nobuki Sugihara, a son of famous Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War Two, is coming to Vilnius on Thursday. […]
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