Participants of the Mission Siberia 2016 project will this year visit graves of Lithuanian deportees in Igarka, a city in the Krasnoyarsk district above the Arctic circle. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
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A group of university students from Russia are coming to Lithuania in mid-July to take care of the graves of Soviet soldiers, Lietuvos Žinios reports. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
On Friday, 20 November, at 11:00 a.m., Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will meet with Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis and Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves at the Palanga Amber Museum.
Russian Ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov met with participants of Mission Siberia 2015 earlier this week after they returned to Lithuania from the Russian region of Tomsk.
Participants of the annual initiative Mission Siberia 2015 returned to Vilnius on Saturday after spending two weeks in Russia.
Participants in the Mission Siberia 2015 have already gone through some truly extreme experiences. The Lithuanians, who are going to Siberia to visits the places where their compatriots exiled by Stalin in the 1940s lived, had to walk more than 20km on foot and ration their food with several biscuit...
Participants of the 16th annual initiative Mission Siberia were on Friday seen off to the Russian region of Tomsk.
Young people from Latvia and Estonia will this year join Lithuania's Mission Siberia 2015 project, during which they will travel to Russia's Tomsk region to clean up the graves of Baltic deportees sent to Siberia under Stalin.
Nearly 800 applicants would like to take part in Mission Siberia 2015, a trip to sites where Lithuanians were exiled and imprisoned by the Soviet regime in the decades after World War Two.
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The team of Mission Siberia 2014 has returned to Lithuania after two weeks of taking care of cemeteries of Lithuanian deportees in Krasnoyarsk region, Russia.
Sixteen members of Mission Siberia 2014 have cleaned up graves at nine cemeteries of Lithuanian deportees in the Russian region of Krasnoyarsk and are coming back to Vilnius on Friday.
