Soviet Union

Lately, social media has been actively circulating posts falsely claiming that Lithuanians should be grateful to Russia for certain invaluable gifts.

Several influential figures were members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, some of them joined it at the time when Lithuania was striving for independence, news website 15min.lt has reported.

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

Is there opposition in Russia? Do Russian people support the war? Are liberal ideas popular only in Moscow and a few other large cities: myth or reality? Why did Putin’s regime decide to kill Nemtsov and imprison Navalny? You will hear answers to these and many other questions in Delfi’s interview w...

Files of 12 incumbent MPs were discovered among the documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Lithuanian archives, a journalistic investigation by news website 15min.lt has revealed.

Vilnius University (VU) will terminate the employment contract with Andrey Desnitsky, a professor from Russia who supported a “referendum” on the status of Crimea and denied the occupation of the Baltic Stats, public radio LRT reported Thursday.

The Estonian flag made its first ever voyage into space recently, after being blasted off into orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket, the public broadcaster ERR reports.

Lithuania marks the 32nd anniversary of the Medininkai tragedy, when seven border officers were killed on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border in an Omon paramilitary police attack.

The State Security Department (VSD) notes that arguments of “sovereign citizens” with authorities are becoming increasingly heated. One of the more prominent cases happened last week, when parents from the “sovereign citizen” movement took their children from a childcare home without permission and ...

Finland faced a moment of truth on February 24, 2022. In case Ukraine’s defense would have collapsed, Finland’s security policy of non-alignment would have been worth of nothing. The Finnish leaders had to make a choice almost by overnight either to give up non-alignment or to remain increasingly un...

Lithuania marks the start of Soviet mass deportations 82 years ago, Day of Mourning and Hope, on Wednesday.

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 decision to drop a civil case they initiated against Mikhail Gorbachev, the then Soviet leader, over his role in the events.

As the smoke cleared at the end of the hard fought war of wills, it occurred to me that I could not remember another time when Lithuania had lost the first two games in a row at a European championship tournament. I have been a die-hard fan much of my life going back to the 1992 ‘Other Dream Team’, ...

Denmark´s former minister for foreign affairs, Uffe Ellemann Jensen, passed away June 19th, eighty one years of age. His Icelandic colleague, foreign minister(1988-95) Mr. Hannibalsson, published an obituary of his collegue and collaborator, in the Icelandic daily, Morgunbladid. In his article, Mr. ...

Taiwan on Thursday thanked Lithuania for setting a "historical precedent" and said it "will defend itself to the last day" as it congratulated the country on the Day of the Defenders of Freedom.

As tanks exploded and refugees fled in the latest round of Armenia and Azerbaijian’s war over Nagorno-Karabakh, social media became another battlefield—with some surprising participants. That included the local branch of McDonald’s, which posted some ardently (and brief-lived) pro-Azeri sentiments o...

On Thursday Lithuanian Foreign Ministry released an official statement of Baltic countries and the US that condemns Russia's attempts to rewrite history.

On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Presidents of the Baltic States Gitanas Nausėda, Egils Levits and Kersti Kaljulaid signed a joint statement where they paid tribute to all victims of World War II and urged the world leaders to reject efforts to rewrite history.

Two lawmakers from the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats have proposed making the Day of Freedom Defenders on January 13 a public holiday.

VILNIUS, Dec 23, BNS – Russia has been lately trying by all means to rewrite history, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says.