What to Know About the Election in Belarus Featuring ‘Europe’s Last Dictator’
Five years since the harsh crackdown on protestors after the 2020 election, critics are readying themselves for Belarus' ...
Ukrainska Pravda on MSN1d
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 Nation2d
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 ...
USNI13d
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 MSN13d
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 ...
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 ...
The Daily Telegraph24d
Eduard Kuznetsov, Soviet dissident whose death sentence exposed the plight of Jews under communism
However his case, which made headlines around the world, drew international attention to Soviet human rights abuses and resulted in the temporary loosening of emigration restrictions – and the c ...
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Deseret News archives: Mighty USSR formed on this date in 1922
On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Its leaders through the ...
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China is visa-free for most of Europe, but not this EU trio. Why?
That is, except Sweden, Lithuania and the Czech Republic ... as Europe’s support for the former Soviet state clashes with Beijing’s continued backing of Moscow. Since November 2023 ...
Daily Mail26d
World War Three fears: Experts tell Trump that Putin won't stop with Ukraine deal - he wants to re-establish Soviet Union and assassinate Zelensky
Fears World War Three could explode have ramped up amid claims Putin is preparing a 'landgrab' in a bid to 're-establish the Soviet Union ... Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia ...