Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania

A bunker-hideout used by Antanas Kraujelis-Siaubunas, Lithuania's longest-fighting anti-Soviet partisan, has been found in the country's Utena District, the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania says.

The priorities of Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Arvydas Anusauskas, candidate for the country's national defense minister, match, Antanas Bubnelis, spokesman for the president, says.

The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania has launched a new website, laisveskovos.lt, that contains the first publicly-accessible detailed list of participants of the Lithuania's anti-Soviet resistance war of 1944-1953.

Adas Jakubauskas, 55, the new director of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania, vows to improve the center's international and internal communication and spread awareness on Lithuania's historic memory issues abroad.

Adas Jakubauskas, 55, has been appointed director of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania on Thursday after 71 lawmakers voted in favor, 15 were against, eight lawmakers abstained and one voting ballot was damaged.

Information published by the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania must be double-checked and must be very trustworthy, Adas Jakubauskas, the candidate to led the center, says.

A monument to Jew savers is planned to be built in Vilnius over the next couple of years.

Petras Cvirka, a prominent Lithuanian poet and author, actively collaborated with the Soviet authorities and his activities had "harmful consequences" for Lithuania and its citizens, the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center (LGGRTC) has concluded.

The remains of Lithuanian partisan Juozapas Streikus-Stumbras have been found at Orphans' Cemetery in the Antakalnis area of Vilnius, the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania told BNS Lithuania on Monday.

The remains of Antanas Kraujelis-Siaubunas, Lithuania's last partisan who was killed with a gun in his arms, have been found at the Orphans' Cemetery in Vilnius, the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania announced on Wednesday.

Lithuania is on Friday marking the Day of Mourning and Hope, the anniversary of the beginning of mass deportations of Lithuanian citizens in the Soviet era.

The remains of around 700 World War II victims might be buried in the territory of Lithuania's Air Base in Siauliai, the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday.

Lithuania was a donor of the Soviet Union rather than its dependent in the first post-war decade of occupation, LRT Television has reported, citing research commissioned by the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania.

The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania begins to publish documents on crimes, such as murders, rapes and robberies, committed by the Red Army in Lithuania.

Deportations and repressions are a shadow of history that trails behind every Lithuanian family, the speaker of the Seimas said on Thursday as the nation remembers the victims of Stalin's deportations.

The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania has published KGB documents on Lithuania's reform movement Sąjūdis on www.kgbveikla.lt, as the movement's 30th anniversary approaches.

There are no grounds to say that actor Donatas Banionis and conductor Saulius Sondeckis collaborated with the KGB, the Lithuanian Lustration Commission has stated.

After Lithuania's parliament over six months ago rejected the proposal of publishing the names of former KGB agents who had admitted their past, MP Zbignev Jedinskij has again initiated the amendment.

Only a very small number of former KGB agents who have not come forward could be working in the public service, the director of the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre said on Monday.

Lithuania's parliament took yet another step to rename the Genocide Museum located in the former KGB building in central Vilnius into the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights.