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The publishing group Alma Littera said on Friday that it was ending cooperation with Rūta Vanagaitė and withdrawing all of her books from the market over the author's unacceptable statements about Lithuania's anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas.

The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center (LGGRTC) is starting publishing agency reports by agents of the Soviet special service KGB.

The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre has published documents from the Special Archives about KGB's activities between 1974 and 1985.

Lithuania's Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys did not get a permit to work with classified information due to his personal links with representatives of Russian energy companies and the criminal community, a former KGB agent and a pro-Kremlin journalist, shows a report from the State Security De...

Both nations – the Lithuanians and the Polish – both recall well how our mutual conflict in between the two World Wars became a noose on both our necks. Then third parties put in great efforts in “helping” the conflict not reach resolution, but even the conflict itself was complex and difficult.

The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre intends to finish publishing names of recruits by the Soviet KGB in 2017.

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.

The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) has announced that it may publish a list of individuals who had worked in police institutions during the Nazi occupation of Europe. This would amount to a list of individuals who may have contributed to the Holocaust in Lithuania, tho...

Former KGB officer Mikhail Golovatov, who is a suspect in the January 13, 1991, massacre in Lithuania, has set up a fund to help other suspects in the case, according to MP Artūras Paulausas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee.

The Seimas of Lithuania decided on Tuesday to classify information about former KGB collaborators for 75 years after 80 MPs voted in favour, 12 were against and 17 abstained.

The Government of Lithuania on Wednesday backed legal amendments under which information about people who voluntarily admitted to have collaborated with the Soviet state security agency, the KGB, would remain classified indefinitely.

Russia attempted to regain influence over the former secret Soviet security collaborators who had admitted their collaboration, says Artūras Paulauskas, the chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee.

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.

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.

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.

A regional court in Panevėžys, northern Lithuania, has cleared the country's first post-independence interior minister Marijonas Misiukonis of genocide charges.

Kaunas Regional Court on Tuesday opened one more case into the murder of Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas.

I have been dealing with European security for more than thirty years, as an activist during the Cold War, as a journalist, and at think-tanks1.

The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre says it has published data of 620 former KGB agents over less than two years.