This Day in History: Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to declare its independence

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.
Heartland

How Lithuania Helped Take Down The Soviet Union

This year, 2016, will mark the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union from the political map of the world. A quarter of a century ago, the menace of Soviet-led communism, which had ...
Naija Gist - Latest

Lithuania convicts Soviet-era officials of 1991 'war crimes'

A Lithuanian court on Wednesday convicted a former Soviet defence minister and dozens of other Russian citizens in absentia of war crimes over Moscow's deadly 1991 crackdown on the Baltic state's ...
Naija Gist - Latest

Lithuania marks 30 years since split that doomed Soviet empire

Lithuania on Wednesday celebrated the 30th anniversary of its secession from the Soviet Union, a move that heralded the beginning of the end of the sprawling Eurasian empire. The Lithuanian parliament ...
Reuters

Last major Soviet statues come down in Lithuanian capital

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Workers started dismantling monumental statues of soldiers, students, labourers and farmers in Lithuania's capital early on Monday, the last major Soviet artworks in a city now on ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93

In more than 30 plays and screenplays, a dozen novels and several collections of poems and short stories, Kanovich captured the community’s pre-war shtetl days and their daily realities as part of the ...