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Tuesday marked the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Tanks of the First Ukrainian Front broke through the enclosures 70 years ago.

The source of current problems in Russia - and, by extension, perturbations in Central and Eastern Europe - is the fact that the Russian society failed to cut all ties with the soviet past back in the 1990s, says Russian historian Andrey Zubov.

Soon the time will come when Russia will issue an official apology for Soviet occupation from the stand of the Lithuanian Seimas, according to Petras Vaitiekūnas, Lithuania's former ambassador to Ukraine and one-time foreign minister. He said this at a solemn parliamentary sitting on Tuesday to mark...

The unity of the Lithuanian nation preserved its freedom that each person must strengthen and cherish, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday.

Lithuania marks the 24th anniversary of the Freedom Defenders' Day on Tuesday, commemorating victims of the Soviet aggression in 1991.

Despite differences, Poland always was, is and will be with you, said the Polish public figure, one of the leaders of Poland's oppositional movement Solidarity, editor-in-chief of Poland's largest newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Adam Michnik.

Lithuania's first post-independence leader, signatory to the 11 March Act, former speaker of the Supreme-Council-Reconstituent Seimas, Vytautas Landsbergis, has called for the restoration of conscription in Lithuania in the wake Russia's aggression in Ukraine.

Twenty-four years after the attempted coup of 13 January 1991, parties in the case are studying the materials of the exclusive Lithuanian investigation that concluded in the end of last year.

A series of events to mark the Day of Freedom Defenders is starting in Lithuania on Monday in tribute to the victims of the Soviet aggression of 13 January 1991.

What kind of a country bids farewell to its currency for the third time over less than 25 years?

Russia is already preparing for large-scale celebrations to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, and Latvian President Andris Bērziņš has been invited to the event as well.

Russia has consistently applied its own interpretation of history and dose of propaganda vis-à-vis the Baltic states. In the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the main source of tension in the propaganda sphere was the interpretation of Soviet history, in particular Soviet occupation of the Baltic states...

In the articles of Putin's Russia series I have repeatedly written about Yevgeny Primakov’s clan. I have described in detail the ongoing battle regarding the implementation of the so-called peace plan in Ukraine, and Primakov’s influence structures both in Russia and in the West. The article about Y...

In the ideological part of his annual address, Vladimir Putin explained how spiritual Russia was and that it would never succumb to the West that has been trying to ruin it for centuries. In the economic part of the speech, he gave the recipe of what should be done to maintain prosperity.

Earlier this month, experts convened in Brussels for a conference titled 'The Second Cold War: Heating Up?' Even among the plethora of current 'New Cold War' themed events, this one stood out: the organiser, Latvian MEP Tatjana Zdanoka, has been accused of being a Russian agent of influence – a spy.

There are many misconceptions about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is being negotiated between the United States and the European Union, says Charles Ries, vice president of the Rand Corporation.

Russia ripping off Crimea from Ukraine has historical precedents that Lithuania experienced first-hand, according to historian Vytautas Jokubauskas, who spoke at a Lithuanian Riflemen's Union conference on civil defence during hybrid war.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Tuesday told his Italian counterpart about his regret over Italy's permission to allow detained Russian citizen Vasily Kotlerov, who is wanted by Lithuania in the 1991 coup case, to leave the country and escape extradition to Lithuania.

Although international law as a concept of general principles and customs has been known for centuries, reaching as back as Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome, discussions concerning its existence and common application reached its apogee only in the 20th century; however, neither the theoretical discus...

The Western countries are unable to properly respond to Russia's aggressive policies, because they are "rich enough to afford the luxury of believing that [they] can take a vacation from history, and ignore the permanent reality of human violence and conflicting, zero-sum interests," according to Ho...