Lithuania welcomes Russia’s acknowledgement that Baltic States fell victim to...
The opinion that the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation for Rehabilitating Victims of Political Repression has announced regarding the damages caused to the occupied countries due...
View ArticleRussian MFA defends Soviet annexation of Baltic States and Moscow
On December 1 and 2, respectively, Lithuania’s and Estonia’s ministries of foreign affairs (MFAs) refuted the Russian MFA’s latest claims that the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania)...
View ArticleUnique Soviet Crimes, by Girnius
Historical disputes are currently unceasing, neither abroad nor in Lithuania. A week ago, the French Senate adopted a law on criminal liability for negating the Armenian genocide. Turkey strongly...
View ArticleR. Valatka — Latvian referendum is not the last echo of Soviet occupation
The referendum on making Russian a second official state language in Latvia failed. Over 77 percent of the nation said no to a plan devised in Kremlin. Latvians emerged as highly public-spirited: as...
View ArticleLet us congratulate Latvia, by Landsbergis
On Saturday, Latvia stood up for itself – it wants to be Latvian. This is, undoubtedly, anti-Soviet, Vytautas Landsbergis wrote in lzinios.lt on 21 February. The notorious dictator Joseph Stalin’s...
View ArticleEnduring legacies of occupation: How economic development of Lithuania was...
Valdas Samonis ABSTRACT. Even if it brought some peculiar kind of economic growth /of cancer type/, the communist system imposed by the USSR has taken Lithuania’s and other formerly oppressed...
View ArticleArtūras Skučas’ memoirs of a pawn in 1991 Lithuanian-Soviet game of chess
Artūras Skučas, former security head of the Supreme Council and one of the founders of the Sąjūdis movement, has recently published a book, “Notes of an Infantryman,” where he reveals previously...
View ArticleLithuania to pay compensations to those who refused service in Soviet army,...
Lithuania will this year pay monetary compensations to persons who refused service in the Soviet army and were thus aggrieved, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. The one-off compensation of 4,000...
View ArticleMP calls Parliament to mark start of most massive deportations from Lithuania
Conservative MP Arvydas Anusauskas has suggested holding a ceremony at the parliament to mark the start of the most massive deportations from Lithuania. May 22 will mark 65 years since the...
View ArticleProsecutors drafting suspicions against 81 persons in Jan. 13 coup case
Prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office intend to bring suspicions against 81 persons in connection to the January 13 1991 attempted coup. “The team of investigations has over the past two years...
View ArticleCourt gives 6 months to ex-Soviet officer for sending people to Siberia
The Court of Appeals of Lithuania on Monday issued a tougher sentence for former Soviet security officer Vaclovas Kojalis, 84, for sending people to Siberia, replacing a fine with six months in prison....
View ArticleReaction to C. Nkemke’s comment “forget the occupation and move on Lithuania”
Neal Maloney | The Lithuania Tribune In a recent Tribune article, Nigerian-immigrant to Lithuania Chijoke Nkemke has a rather harsh indictment of Lithuanian society. He claims that he personally has...
View ArticleBelarusian “report” has nothing to do with human rights analysis – Foreign...
A report published by Belarus on Monday has nothing to do with the analysis or evaluation of the human rights situation in the world, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. In a...
View ArticleState awards presented to Lithuanian military and members of anti-occupation...
On February 16 orders and medals of the Republic of Lithuania were presented to service members of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and members of the resistance movement of 1940-1990 at a State Awards...
View ArticleThe review of Felicia Prekeris Brown’s book ‘God, Give Us Wings’
Boris Vytautas Bakunas | The Lithuania Tribune The air raid sirens wailed their cries of oncoming grief unusually early one morning in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania during the summer of 1944, jolting...
View ArticleOn this day in sport: 11 February
Alex Tigani | The Lithuania Tribune Today marks the 86th anniversary since Lithuania was first represented in the 1928 Winter Olympics in St Moritz, Switzerland. Just days before the nation celebrated...
View ArticleMemory of Lithuanian partisans to be commemorated in Menaiciai
BNS A solemn ceremony will be held in Menaiciai, Radviliskis District, northern Lithuania, on Saturday to commemorate the memory of Lithuanian partisan commanders who fought against Soviet occupants...
View ArticleRussia looks at protests in the Baltic states
Despite their strong Western integration, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are vulnerable to Russian destabilization tactics via energy, trade, political and cultural links. It is highly unlikely that...
View ArticleVilnius court rejects 13 January coup suspect’s bail plea
BNS A Vilnius court on Thursday overruled the plea filed by the lawyer of 13 January 1991 coup suspect Yuriy Mel asking for lighter detention regulations. The ruling is final and not subject to...
View ArticleOfficial Seimas statement: rescuers of Jews granted freedom fighter status
At its plenary session, the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania adopted amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of the Participants of the Resistance to the 1940–1990 Occupations, whereby the...
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