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On Wednesday, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia mark the 84th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the 34th anniversary of the Baltic Way. On this occasion, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė has highlighted the importance of these dates for the history of Lithuania.
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.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has decided not to go to a major Holocaust commutation event in Jerusalem, but will pay homage to the Jewish victims in Auschwitz, in Poland, next Monday, his office said on Tuesday.
VILNIUS, Dec 23, BNS – Russia has been lately trying by all means to rewrite history, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says.
The European Parliament called on the European Commission on Thursday to counter Russia's attempts to whitewash crimes committed by the Soviet totalitarian regime.
A giant construction made up more than 2,000 old radios will sound in unison in Vilnius on the evening of 23 August. It has been set as the largest radio installation record by Lithuanian record registration agency “Factum”.
As Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia mark the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way, people in Hong Kong are also set to join their hands and form a human chain on Friday to demand China to give them more freedom.
Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis on Thursday called on the US e-commerce giant Amazon to stop selling Soviet-themed products.
Organizers of "The Hong Kong Way", a pro-democracy action in the form of a human chain across the semi-autonomous city on Friday, say protesters against Chinese oppression are drawing inspiration from the independence fight of Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians.
The 30th anniversary of the 1989 peaceful anti-Soviet demonstration in which two million people joined hands in a human chain stretching from Vilnius to Tallinn will be marked with the slogan "The Baltic Way is Us".
Public figures in Lithuania plan to bring 10,000 people to form a live chain to mark the anniversary of the Baltic Way.
Lithuanian diplomats expressed their protest to a representative of the Russian Embassy on Thursday over Russia's decision to mark the takeover of Vilnius and Kaunas during WWII with artillery salutes.
The archives of the Baltic Appeal to the United Nations (BATUN), a Baltic emigrant organization, will be made available to the public after they are handed over to Latvia's national archives, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday.
The world has not learnt the historical lesson from the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Wednesday.
Germany has given Lithuania copies of a 1939 Soviet-Nazi pact that divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
The leaked recordings of conversations between Poland's former foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski and then CEO of oil company Orlen, Jacek Krawiec, about investments in Mažeikiai oil refinery in Lithuania do not reflect the position of the current Polish government, Warsaw said on Wednesday.
War is never two dimensional. Edward Lucas considers one chapter of anti-Soviet resistance, on the website of the Center for European Policy Analysis.
In her congratulatory message to the German-led NATO battalion in Lithuania, Germany's Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday pledged to defend Lithuania's freedom and independence.
Acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Irene Angelico confronts her doubts and visits Vilnius, the city where her parents lived during the Second World War. They knew it as Vilna.
