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The memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), which was reinstalled in Vilnius on Thursday night at the initiative of nongovernmental organizations, will damage Lithuania's image, says, Fainy Kukliansky, leader of the Jewi...
Supporters of Jonas Noreika, a controversial Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), plan in early September to install a new plaque to honor him in the place of the old one removed from the facade of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in centr...
There cannot be several different policies on sensitive historic issues in Lithuania, and the assessment of historic figures should be depoliticized, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says.
A controversial memorial plaque to Jonas Noreika, a Lithuanian military officer known as Generolas Vetra (General Storm), in central Vilnius was removed on Saturday morning, Aleksandras Zubriakovas, an advisor to the Vilnius mayor, confirmed it to BNS Lithuania.
Klaipeda court has imposed a fine of 12,000 euros on Viaceslav Titov, a local politician, for the defamation of the memory of Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, one of the leaders of Lithuania's anti-Soviet partisan resistance.
Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said Thursday it would investigate a list of about 2,000 Lithuanians who may have taken part in the killing of Jews in Lithuania during World War Two. The list was compiled by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre in Lithuania.
A posthumous award of military rank to a man suspected of involvement in the Holocaust has caught attention of the Lithuanian parliament speaker who has asked for explanation from the president and the defence minister.
Author Rūta Vanagaitė recently presented a book, "Our Own", about the Holocaust in Lithuania. Although historians have been researching the topic for years, the Lithuanian society has yet to realize and acknowledge the part their compatriots, ordinary Lithuanians, played in the mass killings of Jews...
The issue re-appeared rather unexpectedly. On 5 November, after a meeting in Riga, the Justice Ministers of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania released a statement, in which they peremptorily declared that their countries had been occupied by and had been “exploited for political and economic needs” by ...
There is no basis for equating post-war Soviet persecution of partisans in Lithuania with genocide, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.
After President Dalia Grybauskaitė changed a 2000 decree on state awards for Lithuania's post-war anti-Soviet resistance fighters, one partisan, Pranas Končius-Adomas, was stripped of the Order of the Cross of Vytis, a decoration conferred on people who defended Lithuania's freedom and independence.
City authorities recently removed four groups of Soviet-era statues from the Green Bridge in central Vilnius. Columnist Ramūnas Bogdanas argues that it was a move in the information war that Russia has launched against the West, including Lithuania. The retaliation that followed targeted crucial mom...
A Kaunas court on Thursday found former KGB officer Ylya Vorobyov guilty for complicity in the 1956 detention of former guerilla chief Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas and sentenced him to two years of restricted freedom.
A Kaunas court on Thursday found former Soviet security officer Stanislovas Drelingas guilty of genocide and sentenced him to five years in prison for participating in a 1956 operation to detain Lithuanian guerrilla leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Artemy Troitsky, Russian journalist and academic. Do you think Russia could possibly apologize for Soviet occupation of the Baltic States in foreseeable future, we asked Troitsky.
