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The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office is handing to court the case of attempted coup of January 13, 1991, which is the most significant and the largest case in the history of Lithuania's law-enforcement, the office said.

Establishing an international institution for investigating Communist crimes would be a rather symbolic act, but it will probably would not lead to prosecution of those behind the Communist repressions, says Professor Justinas Žilinskas of the Lithuanian Mykolas Romeris University's Department of In...

Robertas Povilaitis who lost his father during the Soviet aggression in Vilnius on January 13, 1991, has turned to the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office, calling for a more active investigation of the liability of the Soviet Union's then leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Lithuania's basketball legend Šarūnas Marčiulonis, who started his career in BC Statyba in 1981, and managed to leave for the NBA despite the Iron Curtain, will join the FIBA‘s hall of fame, The Denver Post reports.

Friday marks 24 years since tragic events at the Lithuanian checkpoint of Medininkai when seven Lithuanian officials were gunned down at work.

Most of the time history can’t be put to bed even though agreements to end wars have been concluded, victors have drawn new boundary lines, promises made, but they soon get either forgotten or swept under the rug, as if they weren’t there. The story of the northern part of former East Prussia (now k...

About 300 people celebrated the 75-year anniversary of the US declaration that condemned the half-century occupation of the Baltic states.

The authorities of Lithuania's coastal resort town Palanga plan to tone down the monument for killed Soviet soldiers in the town centre, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reports.

A ceremony will take place in Vilnius on Thursday to celebrate 75 years since the Welles Declaration by which the United States condemned the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states.

A piece of recent news from Russia raised particularly many eyebrows last week. Media reported that the Office of Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation took up to investigate the legitimacy of the independence of the Batlic states.

Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas calls Russian media reports of a probe allegedly launched in Russia into the recognition of the Baltic states' independence in 1991 "propaganda".

Vilnius Regional Court on Tuesday sentenced a former Soviet police (militia) officer to five years in prison for the deportation of civilians during the Soviet times.

Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has opened an investigation into the legitimacy of the independence of the Baltic states. The office is to look into whether a decision, made by the State Council of the USSR in 1991, to recognize the three breakaway states as independent nations was legal, newsr...

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.

Prosecutors from Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office are finishing the indictment in the January 13 case, with 69 people, mainly Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nationals, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

I decided to dedicate one more essay in the "Putin's Russia" series to Russian oligarchs because of one piece of news that attracted much less attention in Lithuania and internationally than it warranted: the former foreign minister of Sweden and one of the fiercest critics of President Valdimir Put...

Russian Duma members Evgeny Fedorov and Anton Roman have turned to Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika with a request to assess the legitimacy of the State Council of the USSR's decision to recognize the independence of the Baltic states in 1991.

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 President Dalia Grybauskaitė does not comment on the ruling of Vilnius Regional Court which acquitted Soviet OMON officers Boleslav Makutynovich and Vladimir Razvodov. However, the president has said that the spirit of the law is more important than the letter of the law, said chief advis...

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.