Lately, social media has been actively circulating posts falsely claiming that Lithuanians should be grateful to Russia for certain invaluable gifts.
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On Wednesday evening, US President Joe Biden delivered a public speech in Vilnius University’s Grand Courtyard. Earlier, the US president attended the NATO summit in Vilnius.
On 7 June, the Council of Paris decided to call a square on the Place du Général Catroux in Paris’s 17th arrondissement, “Jardin de la Lituanie” (The Garden of Lithuania). It will be the first location named after Lithuania in the French capital, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania.
The national defence minister says that the act of vandalism against a monument to freedom fighter Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in Merkinė, southern town of Lithuania, is a humiliation of the “pillars of statehood”. It may be connected to Russia’s upcoming celebration of victory over Nazi Germany in ...
The Lithuanian parliament voted on Thursday to award the annual Freedom Prize to Belarus' democratic opposition.
A bunker-hideout used by Antanas Kraujelis-Siaubunas, Lithuania's longest-fighting anti-Soviet partisan, has been found in the country's Utena District, the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania says.
The world can no longer play the double game with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's regime and it needs to be politically and diplomatically isolated, ex-Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite says.
The highway from Vilnius to the Latvian border will from now on be marked as "The Baltic Way" on the Google maps, the Chancellery of the Lithuanian Government said on Friday.
On Thursday Lithuanian Foreign Ministry released an official statement of Baltic countries and the US that condemns Russia's attempts to rewrite history.
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.
On June 18 a representative of the Embassy of the Russian Federation was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania to express profound concern about the recent legislative initiative of State Duma deputy A. Zhuravlev to revoke USSR Supreme Council Resolution of 24 Dece...
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.
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.
Lithuania plans to commemorate the Baltic Way, which took place more than 30 years ago, by naming its main roads where people formed the live chain "the Baltic Way".
American author writing on Holocaust: past serves as a warning how things can go between nations (3)
From Facebook to Donald Trump's impeachment. American author Timothy David Snyder who specializes in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust has his strong opinion on every topic. According to him, looking to the past we can predict what is waiting in the future.
Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis on Thursday called on the US e-commerce giant Amazon to stop selling Soviet-themed products.
The memory of Lithuania's first President Antanas Smetona should be duly honored in Vilnius, President Gitanas Nauseda says.
Participants of the annual Mission Siberia left for Kazakhstan from Vilnius Railway Station on Wednesday.
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 remains of Antanas Kraujelis-Siaubunas, Lithuania's last partisan who was killed with a gun in his arms, have been found at the Orphans' Cemetery in Vilnius, the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania announced on Wednesday.
