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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 bear traces of Lithuanian deportee communities, although time and neglect are taking toll on Lithuanian cemeteries. To read this article, try a €5.99 mo...

The new propagandists who dominated the Russian media were formed by the experience of the trauma of the 1990s and the loss of the certainties of the Soviet past. Their ideology is a fusion of Soviet and imperial Russian ideas. Its chief intellectual weakness is that it must link Russian success to ...

Lithuania gave the world many stellar personalities that have and continue to entertain, impress and influence the world. Here is our selection of ten global stars you may not have suspected have Lithuanian blood.

From the 9th to the 13th centuries, the present-day Lithuanian Baltic coast was inhabited by the Curonians, a Baltic tribe that inspired respectful fear even in the Scandinavians. Unfortunately, the Curonians did not found a state and were forced to recognise the rule of the Teutonic Order. Life by ...

Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office has analysed a list of some 2,000 people suspected of involvement in the Holocaust, but will not be pursuing charges, because not one of them is still alive, 15min.lt reports.

The Lithuanian Tatar community is the oldest ethnic group living in Lithuania, having settled in the country when it was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century. They have had a profound influence on Lithuania’s history, language and food.

Five years ago, I wrote about the first time I saw the lands of Kaliningrad, known as the Karaliaučius region in Lithuanian. My first impression was depressing.

Lithuanian specialists have digitized more than 80,000 pages of documents from a pre-war Jewish research institute in order to make them available online.

Historical sources document medieval Lithuanian tribes to have been not just victims of crusader attacks but expansionists and pillagers in their own right, fierce warriors whose might terrorized their neighbours, including fellow Balts, and forged empires.

Emmy-nominated director Chris Cassel first shot in Lithuania nine years ago. Now the director is back to film a docudrama about Pope Pius XII’s role in World War Two.

Lithuania is paying tribute on Friday to victims of the biggest Soviet deportations in 1948.

"The backpack of a modern infantry soldier weighs just much as the armour of a medieval knight. And it is a myth that an armoured warrior could not get up, if he fell down," says Medieval armoury enthusiast Karolis Jankauskas.

The famous US actor Sean Penn, two-time Oscar winner, appears to have Lithuanian roots with his Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) grandfather born in Lithuania in 1879.

France is considering to build a monument on Lithuania's Curonian Spit to commemorate French soldiers who perished here during nineteenth-century military conflicts.

In 1906, after a trip through some Central European cities, soaking up art in some major museums, the life of young Konstantinas Mikalojus Čiurlionis was going to change dramatically, eventually ending less than a decade later with his early death.

In the thirteenth century Lithuanians had to face an onslaught of Livonian and German crusaders, great military organizations whose raison d'etre was war on non-Christian religions. For pagan Lithuanians, who had just formed military forces of their own, their faith played an equally important part ...

Western Europeans invented the dining room in the late 18th century but in Lithuania a room dedicated to meals, the so-called stalava, had existed since the 16th century.

Lithuania's Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas paid tribute to the victims of World War Two in Moscow on Sunday by visiting the Eternal Flame Memorial at the walls of the Kremlin.

Several thousand people gathered in the Antakalnio Cemetery in Vilnius on Monday to mark the end of World War Two.

Lithuania's history is chock-full of legendary leaders and historical heroes that have made Lithuania what it is today. After looking across the span of Lithuania's long and proud history, here is our list of the Top 10 Lithuanian historical figures of all time.