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Seventy-five years ago this week, people in Europe and most of the world woke up to ominous newspaper headlines: "German Army Attacks Poland; Cities Bombed, Port Blocked; Danzig is Accepted into Reich", "War! Nazi Bombs Rain on Polish Cities". This was the start of the Second World War.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed 75 years ago is remembered as the beginning of an alliance between Hitler and Stalin that divided Eastern Europe between the two totalitarian dictators and opened the way to World War II. That it certainly was, but the accord had another impact as well: reaction to...
In the first article about Dmitry Rogozin’s clan, I discussed how this clan developed and gained strength. However, in the context of aggression against Ukraine, it is crucial to focus attention not just on Rogozin and his clan’s ideology or rhetoric.
Perhaps few events in my 43-year-old’s life have been so vivid and, without exaggeration, future-defining as the Baltic Way.
Nine special information stands to mark the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way have been unveiled near the roads Vilnius-Panevėžys and Panevėžys-Pasvalys-Riga in Lithuania on Friday.
I have to confess, that generally, I don’t like the term “Baltic States.” This term references a legacy I hate — the Soviet legacy.
August 21 marks 23 years since the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia adopted the constitutional law on the governmental status of the Republic of Latvia. That ended the Declaration "On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia" and its established transition period for the re...
Seventy-five years ago, on 23 August, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a cooperation and non-aggression pact. The now infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact divided Europe and provided with its secret provisions an evil platform that set the stage for the Second World War. The Molotov-Ribbentrop P...
Alexander Dyukov, a Russian citizen who was not allowed to enter Lithuania earlier this week, is a representative of the Russian special services, using his publications to justify crimes of the Stalinist regime, according to historian and Lithuanian MP Arvydas Anušauskas.
The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre says it has published data of 620 former KGB agents over less than two years.
As Lithuania marks 70 years since the start of the guerilla war this summer, new initiatives are emerging in the country to pay tribute to the legacy of the "brothers of the forest", as anti-Soviet partisans were known, which has inspired many Lithuanians from artists to soldiers.
Russian citizen Vasiliy Kotlerov, a suspect in the 13 January 1991 massacre case in Lithuania, has been put under house arrest by an Italian court, Lithuanian prosecutors have confirmed.
On Wednesday, the Lithuanian Parliament is holding an event to mark the 25th anniversary of the Gotland declaration.
The Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels would probably feel like an immature student were he to see the operation of the Kremlin propaganda machine.
When scholars analyse the final Soviet basketball team to participate in the Summer Olympics, the most popular observation was the fact that the team contained four Lithuanians.
The fate of the controversial Soviet-era sculptures on the Green Bridge in the Lithuanian capital should be decided during a conference organized by the State Commission for Cultural Heritage this fall, daily Lietuvos žinios reported Friday.
The team of Mission Siberia 2014 has returned to Lithuania after two weeks of taking care of cemeteries of Lithuanian deportees in Krasnoyarsk region, Russia.
Prominent Lithuanian clergyman, former dissident and political figure Monsignor Alfonsas Svarinskas passed away last week, aged 89. One of the most active Lithuanian dissidents hated Soviet occupants with all his heart and soul. As a result, Svarinskas spent 22 years in labour camps of Siberia.
At a closed-door hearing on Tuesday, Vilnius Regional Court heard an appeal by Russian citizen Yuriy Mel, a suspect in the 13 January 1991 case, against a district court's decision to extend his detention for two months.
Memory politics has everything to do with how the Lithuanian public perceives events in Ukraine that have dominated the local media and political discourse since last December to an unprecedented degree, says Felix Ackermann, associate professor at Vilnius-based European Humanities University.
