"There is always someone in a family who pushes against silence," says Rita Gabis, in whose new book Lithuania’s Holocaust skeletons come to light, exploring the 220,000 Lithuanian Jews killed during WWII — and the people who let it happen.
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This week 225 years ago, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth adopted what was then the first written constitution in Europe. The Constitution of May 3, 1791, is a milestone in the common history of Poland and Lithuania that ties them firmly into the European identity, historians say.
This week, Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society Policy Institute and former Australian prime minister, will be visiting Moscow. Speaking at the Carnegie Moscow Center on February 18, 2016, Kevin Rudd outlined Chinese foreign policy under Xi Jinping. In a new article written exclusively for Carn...
The revival in the cultivation of hemp for use in practical products in Lithuania is a revival of a thousands year-old practice according to archaeologists.
The Lithuanian, Belarusian and Jewish communities in Poland have been incensed by a state funeral accorded to a partisan leader linked to mass murders during World War Two.
An explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986, in the northern part of what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic remains one of the biggest man-made disasters of all times, with long-lasting health consequences for people in the plant's vicinity and those sent to de...
A photography exhibition in Klaipėda explores pagan traditions in traditional Baltic festivals.
Lithuanians, the last pagans of Europe, took their time to fully embrace Christianity in their daily lives and mixed it with older pagan rites. The religious sensibilities of Lithuanian peasants in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries is a topic of a new study by historian Vytautas Ališauskas.
Grave robbers dug up two burial sites in Lithuania in search of military memorabilia from the two world wars, Lzinios.lt reports.
It has long been thought that the first inhabitants came to the territory of present-day Lithuania 14,000 years ago, but a new discovery has pushed back the date at least 30,000 years more.
This week 55 years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first man to journey into outer space. A landmark in the history of human exploration, it was also a feat in the political rivalry between the two super powers of the time.
How much space did non-conformist art and artists enjoy in a society where they were inevitably included into the Soviet state machinery? The question was raised in a recent discussion by artists, historians and art critics who research art and artistic production during the Soviet period.
What is the image of the Baltic States in the Russian press? Political scientist Viktor Denisenko looked at two decades of reporting on Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to see how Russian newspaper readers are made to think about their western neighbours.
People like anniversaries, and 75 years since the establishment of Kaunas Ghetto is a good opportunity to remember the history of Lithuania's Litvaks, says a British expat offering an original way of doing it.
The award-winning founder and director of the International Centre for Litvak Photography Richard Schofield recently commissioned a piece of music to be performed as part of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Kaunas Ghetto.
Members of Lithuania's Roma community who perished during World War Two should have a day of commemoration, say public organizations. They add that the group has been unduly erased from Lithuania's historic memory.
1902 m. vasario 12 d. baltuoju vaiduokliu pramintą automobilį vairavęs Edwardas Russellas Thomasas lėkė daugiau nei 40 mylių (64 kilometrų) per valandą greičiu, kai partrenkė ir mirtinai sužalojo 7-erių Henry Theissą.
A new list of former KGB agents to be released will contain the names of about ten well-known Lithuanian public figures, according to the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre, which is investigating the archives of the Soviet security police.
Diverging views on poetry has become an issue of a heated debate on history and censorship after Lithuania's minister of defence denied a state award to an author whose analysis of the Soviet past did not match the minister's own opinion. At the centre of the controversy is the poet Justinas Marcink...
A posthumous award of military rank to a man suspected of involvement in the Holocaust has caught attention of the Lithuanian parliament speaker who has asked for explanation from the president and the defence minister.
