Mikhail Gorbachev

Seimas speaker met with freedom defenders

On Friday in parliament, Speaker of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen met with freedom defenders and thanked them for safeguarding Lithuania’s...

Plaintiffs appeal Vilnius court's decision to drop civil case against Gorbachev

Relatives of four people who died in the Soviet army 's crackdown on unarmed civilians in Vilnius in January 1991 have appealed against a Vilnius court's...

Vilnius court to decide on Gorbachev's successor in civil case over 1991 Soviet crackdown

A Vilnius court will decide on the legal successor of Mikhail Gorbachev , the last Soviet leader who died in Moscow on Tuesday, in a civil case over his...

Relatives of four victims of 1991 Soviet crackdown in Vilnius take Gorbachev to court

Family members of four people who died in the Soviet army 's crackdown on unarmed civilians in Vilnius in January 1991 have filed a civil lawsuit against...

The beautiful, dumb dream of McDonald’s peace theory

As tanks exploded and refugees fled in the latest round of Armenia and Azerbaijian’s war over Nagorno-Karabakh, social media became another...