President Gitanas Nausėda met on Thursday with Jan Raczynsky, chair of the Board of the international human rights organization Memorial and active supporter of cooperation between the Memorial and the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre.
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The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) will remove the Register of KGB Agency Archive Personal Records from its website.
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.
This year, Lithuania will mark the 29th anniversary of the re-establishment of its independence, commemorating the adoption of the Act on the Re-establishment of the State of Lithuania by the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas on 11 March 1990. On this occasion, a lot of festive events will take...
An investigation of the remains of Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, a Lithuanian armed anti-Soviet resistance commander, has revealed that he was shot dead in an unusual way, the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre (LGGRTC) said on Tuesday.
The incumbent Lithuanian parliament has not a single member who secretly collaborated with the Soviet KGB, Teresė Birutė Burauskaitė, head of the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania said following its research.
The Museum of Genocide Victims, situated in the former KGB building in Vilnius, has been renamed the Museum of Occupation and Freedom Fighters.
The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre says that a register of KGB archival dossiers it has just completed publishing should be viewed with a critical eye.
Prominent Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis was recruited as a KGB agent during the soviet rule, the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre said.
A monument to Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, a Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander, will be erected in the United States next year in commemoration of 100 years of his birth.
It is proposed to put up special information boards at sites of mass Jewish graves in Lithuania to display both the names of those killed and as detailed information as possible about their executioners.
The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre has published documents from the Special Archives about KGB's activities between 1974 and 1985.
The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre intends to finish publishing names of recruits by the Soviet KGB in 2017.
As part of its effort to estimate the damage caused by the Soviet occupation, Lithuania wants to dig up archival documents to calculate the balance of financial flows between Vilnius and Moscow during that period, a method that has already been used by neighbouring Latvia, the daily Lietuvos Žinios ...
Events in Lithuania have begun to commemorate Lithuania's Day of Mourning and Hope, which is held every year on 14 June. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.