Soviet Union

Russian singer denied entry to Lithuania

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...

More than third of Russians believe Baltics voluntarily joined Soviet Union

A survey by the Levada Center , an analytical centre based in Moscow , has shown that 34% of Russians still believe that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia...

Great power games: Do ordinary Russians really want war? (1)

Does the international perception of Russia as an expansionist and warmongering country sit well with the mood of Russia's population?

Memorialising Lithuanian deportees who perished in Siberia

Tens of thousands of Lithuanians were deported by Stalin to Siberia during and after World War Two . Villages in the distant reaches of Russia still...