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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda is retreating from plans to table a bill to require municipalities to follow criteria set by the central government in making decisions on commemorative plaques.

Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), led the anti-Nazi resistance of the Lithuanian region of Zemaitija (Samogitia) during the Nazi occupation time when he served as head of Siauliai County, and also organized a Jew rescue network in Si...

Supporters of Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), plan in early September to install a new plaque to honor him in the place of the old one removed from the facade of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in centr...

Prosecutors have received four complaints over the removal of the memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika, a pre-war Lithuanian military officer and an anti-Soviet resistance fighter accused of collaboration with the Nazis, in central Vilnius, 15min.lt reported on Friday.

A controversial memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika, a Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), in central Vilnius was removed on Saturday morning, Aleksandras Zubriakovas, an advisor to the Vilnius mayor, confirmed it to BNS Lithuania.