Today, Dieveniškės remains Lithuanian and might be a good introduction into a potential claim for Lithuania's territorial expansion into the rest of the Vilnius region - now ruled by Belarus ...

The Lithuanian language sign in Vilnius's former Jewish quarter reads "Jewish Street" and below hangs a Hebrew version, with Star of David. Not far away, in Cyrillic letters, is the plaque ...

Courtesy: Grant Gochin The government of Lithuania deemed Skirpa’s calls for ethnic cleansing as merely an “incident of antisemitism” which in no way impairs his national hero status.

But Zuroff, who has written extensively about Lithuania, said the ethnic baiting represents something new and troubling.

During World War II, when Lithuania was occupied by Germany, an overwhelming majority of the country's Jews were killed with the active cooperation of ethnic Lithuanians. Sixty years later ...

Ethnic Russians are somewhere between one-fifth and one-quarter of the population. And yet, after Estonian independence in 1991, they were not given citizenship, even if they were born there.

Lithuania’s battle for independence from Moscow, culminating in a failed Soviet Army bid to crush secessionists in 1991, raised questions of ethnic and cultural identity suppressed over decades ...

Lithuania's battle for independence from Moscow, culminating in a failed Soviet Army bid to crush secessionists in 1991, raised questions of ethnic and cultural identity suppressed over decades of ...

Lithuania has long experienced tensions with its vocal and politically-united Polish minority, which makes up around 7 percent of its population. Ethnic Poles protested in 2014 when they were told to ...

Lithuania's battle for independence from Moscow, culminating in a failed Soviet Army bid to crush secessionists in 1991, raised questions of ethnic and cultural identity suppressed over decades of ...