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Lithuania marks the Mourning and Hope Day on June 14, commemorating the start of the occupation by the Soviet Union in 1940 and the beginning of mass deportations.

Lithuanian prosecutors have decided to appeal against the court ruling to clear former commanders of the Soviet special militia unit OMON of charges, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Friday.

Digitalization of the unique archives about lives of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust accumulated by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in Vilnius before World War II should start in New York in the coming months.

That’s because the first two positions in Russia’s enemy ratings are reserved for extremely superior players. Lithuania in the third spot might sound counterintuitive, but it’s no joke, it’s an actual fact. But let’s unpack it in proper order. It comes as no surprise that Russia’s enemy number one i...

Vilnius court on Friday heard testimony of Tomas Šernas, the only survivor of the 1991 Medininkai checkpoint massacre, in the case where charges have been brought in absentia against three Russian citizens.

Dokumentinio filmo apie partizanus „Nematomas frontas“ kūrėjai vėl susitiks filmavimo aikštelėje. Režisierių Vinco Sruoginio ir Jono Ohmano komanda ruošiasi kurti vaidybinį filmą apie Sausio 13-osios įvykius. V. Sruoginis – naujojo filmo režisierius, J.Ohmanas – istorijos faktų tyrėjas.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has invited Ms Marija Elena Romeryte (Marisha Helena Romer in English) to the Presidential Palace in Vilnius on May 20. President Grybauskaitė will be presented with two original oils painted by Marisha’s grandmother, renowned Lithuanian artist Sofija Romeriene, whose li...

At its plenary sitting, the Seimas of Lithuania marked the 95th anniversary of the Constituent Seimas on Friday. Loreta Graužinienė, the speaker of the Seimas, pointed out that the Constituent Seimas was the first representative of the Lithuanian nation that had its first democratic, universal and d...

As Russia marks the victory over Nazi Germany in WWII, several thousand people, mainly Russian-speakers, gathered at Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius to pay tribute to WWII victims and surviving war veterans.

Juliana Zarchi, the daughter of a German mother and a Jewish father, who survived Nazi and Soviet repressions in Lithuania, says her fears are rekindled again as she sees re-emerging fascination with cruelty, despite horrible lessons of the twentieth century.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday paid tribute to victims of WWII at Paneriai Memorial, stressing the need to preserve peace today.

Lithuania marks the end of World War Two on Friday, with the country's president, prime minister and speaker of the Seimas attending commemorative events.

On 8 May, Lithuania is joining Europe in commemorating victory over Nazism. Russia celebrates its own Victory Day on 9 May. The Germans signed the instrument of surrender in Reims, France, on 7 May 1945. It was to come into effect at 11 PM on 8 May.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is travelling to Poland on Thursday to attend, alongside other European leaders, commemorative events marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two.

On 8 May each year, the world pays tribute to the victims of World War Two. The following day, 9 May, Russia celebrates its Victory Day with pompous parades of tanks and displays of arms. This year, on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, many Western leaders turned down invitations to ...

Chief advisor to the Lithuanian president on foreign policy, Jovita Neliupšienė, says that the names of people who voluntarily admitted their collaboration with the KGB may be revealed only after the situation is thoroughly analysed.

Vilijampolė, Kaunas, winter. The project "Being a Jew". A group of thirty teachers led by a Jewish guide are standing in the former Kaunas ghetto. Houses, garages, storage spaces, wood piles where, during the war, thousands of Jews were herded like animals by the Nazis, where Jewish children played,...

The political council of Lithuania's ruling coalition is discussing the possibility of publishing lists of persons who have admitted their secret collaboration with Soviet security structures.

Lithuania will celebrate the end of World War II in Europe on 8 May, with official events to be attended by the president and the prime minister.

A Kaunas court on Thursday found former KGB officer Ylya Vorobyov guilty for complicity in the 1956 detention of former guerilla chief Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas and sentenced him to two years of restricted freedom.