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.
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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.
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.
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.