Ministers of five Eastern European countries have issued a joint statement, calling for investigation into the crimes of communist regimes in Europe.
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On August 23, Lithuania is celebrating the 27th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a defining moment in the Baltic countries' movement for independence from the Soviet Union. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Oleg Gazmanov, a Russian pop singer known for his glorification of the Kremlin and the Soviet Union in his songs, was not allowed to enter Lithuania on Wednesday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
A survey by the Levada Center, an analytical centre based in Moscow, has shown that 34% of Russians still believe that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia joined the Soviet Union willingly in 1940. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Does the international perception of Russia as an expansionist and warmongering country sit well with the mood of Russia's population?
Tens of thousands of Lithuanians were deported by Stalin to Siberia during and after World War Two. Villages in the distant reaches of Russia still bear traces of Lithuanian deportee communities, although time and neglect are taking toll on Lithuanian cemeteries. To read this article, try a €5.99 mo...
The ministers of justice of the Baltic states, Poland and Ukraine have condemned the 1941 deportations, as Lithuania on Tuesday commemorates 75 years since the start of mass deportations of its citizens. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
The new propagandists who dominated the Russian media were formed by the experience of the trauma of the 1990s and the loss of the certainties of the Soviet past. Their ideology is a fusion of Soviet and imperial Russian ideas. Its chief intellectual weakness is that it must link Russian success to ...
A recent study commissioned by Finland has outlined the pros and cons of the country joining NATO.
Five years ago, I wrote about the first time I saw the lands of Kaliningrad, known as the Karaliaučius region in Lithuanian. My first impression was depressing.
Lithuanian economists and business groups have noticed a trend among shoppers: Lithuanians are beginning to turn their backs on large supermarkets in favour of smaller shops and markets.
The Russian government has paid out USD 1.72 billion to Kuwait that was owed by the former Soviet Union.
Mantas Martišius, a Lithuanian expert on information warfare and propaganda, said that celebrating 9 May carries a special significance for Vladimir Putin's regime.
Several thousand people gathered in the Antakalnio Cemetery in Vilnius on Monday to mark the end of World War Two.
Vilnius police were alerted twice on Monday about public displays of Soviet Union symbols, which is a crime in Lithuania.
No diplomatic representative from Lithuania will attend this year's May 9 Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has said on Wednesday.
Latvia is celebrating the 26th anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union on Wednesday.
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...
Former US secretary of Defence William Perry has said that Russia and the US blundering into a Cuban missile crisis type confrontation in the Baltic States was a live possibility.
