Mission Siberia

Mission Siberia, an expedition organized annually to tend to graves of Lithuanian deportees and political prisoners, has been cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organizers said on Tuesday.

Participants of the annual Mission Siberia left for Kazakhstan from Vilnius Railway Station on Wednesday.

Lithuania's former political prisoners and deportees called on Russia during their convention on Saturday to let participants of the Mission Siberia project into the country.

Participants of Lithuania's 17th Mission Siberia expedition returned to Lithuania from Kazakhstan on Sunday.

Lithuania's 17th Mission Siberia expedition is leaving for Kazakhstan on Thursday morning.

No artificial barriers can prevent young people from honoring the memory of the victims of Stalinism, just as no one can deny the historical truth about the genocide against the Lithuanian people, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said as she met with members of Mission Siberia'18 team on Wednesday.

Lithuania's annual Mission Siberia expedition, organized annually to tend to the burial cites of Lithuanian deportees in Russia, will go to Kazakhstan this year after Russia barred entry to the mission's participants, the Lithuanian national radio Lietuvos Radijas said on Monday.

Representatives of Lithuania's annual Mission Siberia expedition, organized to tend to the burial cites of Lithuanian deportees in Russia, hopes Moscow's decision to bar the expedition's participants from entering the country is not final.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry expressed on Friday its disappointment over Russia's decision to block an annual Mission Siberia expedition.

It is unfortunate, but this year the organisers will face difficulties. Such hints were already bandied around by Kremlin propaganda outlets Baltnews and Sputnik in March by unnamed individuals, predicting that this year the project Misija Sibiras (Mission Siberia) will be obstructed. The threat was...

Over a thousand people in Lithuania took part in the readings in ten cities of the names of more than 100,000 people who were deported by the Soviets or imprisoned for political reasons as Lithuania marked the Day of Mourning and Hope on Thursday.

Lithuania this year plans to send two Mission Siberia expeditions to Russia to clean up deportees' graves.

The call for applications for this year's Mission Siberia expedition was launched in Lithuania on Thursday.

Young people from Poland may join Lithuanians in next year’s expedition to Siberia to clean up deportees' graves, the head of the Mission Siberia project said.

Participants of the 16th expedition Mission Siberia returned to the Vilnius railway station on Tuesday morning from Russia.

Participants of the 16th Mission Siberia have left for Russia's region of Irkutsk to clean up Lithuanian cemeteries and meet with deportation survivors and their descendants who still live in Siberia.

The 16th expedition of Mission Siberia will depart from the Vilnius railway station on Monday evening to travel to far Russia.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met on Friday with the Mission Siberia 2017 team who are leaving next week for Russia's Siberian city of Irkutsk.

Participants of this year's Mission Siberia expedition were greeted with deportee songs upon their return to Vilnius railway station on Monday morning. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.