The Forward41m
For Finland’s tiny Jewish community, a complicated history of fighting for the czar and the Nazis
Finland's community of approximately 1,500 Jews dates back to the 19th century when they arrived here to serve in the Russian ...
Belarus election poised to extend 30-year rule of 'Europe's last dictator'
The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the ...
Ukrainska Pravda on MSN2d
Lithuania calls on NATO to show its readiness to counter Russian aggression
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys believes that NATO should be more decisive in countering Russian sabotage attacks ...
The Nation3d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
USNI14d
Report to Congress on the U.S. Baltic Relations
The following is the Jan. 7, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania: Background and U.S.
The Moscow Times on MSN14d
Moscow Accuses Lithuania of Provoking Territorial Dispute Over Kaliningrad
The Kremlin on Fridayaccused Lithuania of provoking a territorial dispute over the Kaliningrad region after the Lithuanian president criticized a local museum’s decision to rename one of its locations ...
BBC17d
The national park that draws mushroom hunters from around the world
In Lithuania’s Dzūkija National Park ... dried and cured the region's fungi to be sent to chefs and Soviet elites in Vilnius, Warsaw and St Petersburg. Grūtas Park, located 40km to the ...
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Legacy of Lithuanian Artists and Designers in Chicago Explored at Balzekas Museum
The exhibition represents three waves of immigrants — from 1900, when Lithuania was part of the Russian Empire, to post-World War II, when it was occupied by the Soviet Union, and after 1990, when it ...