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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 des...
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 cont...
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...
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 sh...
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.
A regional court in Panevėžys, northern Lithuania, has cleared the country's first post-independence interior minister Marijonas Misiukonis of genocide charges.
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 sett...
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 ch...
Even before it had finished "defending" the rights of Russian compatriots in Ukraine, Moscow spoke about oppression of Russian-speakers in the Baltic states last week, as its Foreign Ministry official demanded that the international community put a stop to alleged russophobia.
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.
On 1 September, in 1939, without a declaration of war a German battleship opened fire on a Polish garrison. It marked the start of Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland and the launch of the Second World War.
