World War Two

Lithuanian army official compares Russia to terrorist organization

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has recently called Russia a terrorist state. She is not alone in saying so.

History lessons in hybrid warfare: How Lithuania lost Klaipėda to Nazi Germany without firing a shot (1)

Russia ripping off Crimea from Ukraine has historical precedents that Lithuania experienced first-hand, according to historian Vytautas Jokubauskas, who...

Former Lithuanian minister cleared of genocide charges

A regional court in Panevėžys, northern Lithuania, has cleared the country's first post-independence interior minister Marijonas Misiukonis of genocide...

Why the West will eventually make up with Russia on Putin's terms (1)

Six years ago, when Russia attacked Georgia and tore off the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia , Western countries were, as always,...

Lithuanian army bomb squad finds 2,000 World War Two cannonballs

Bomb disposal troops from the Lithuanian army 's Juozas Vitkus Engineer Battalion have discovered a record number of around 2,000 World War Two...