- The echoes of WWII Dresden’s bombing horror also reach tiny Palanga: a farewell to the homeland
A whole 75 years ago, on the winter night of February 13th to 14th, 1945, the British and American Air Force bombed Dresden, one of the most beautiful cities in Germany, and the people there had been hit by a catastrophe of such a terrible scale that all the horror might never be revealed.
- 100 years since Soviet Russia offered peace to Latvia, Lithuania and Finland
A hundred years ago, on September 11, 1919 the Latvian government received a telegram from Georgy Chicherin, People‘s Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Soviet government, with an offer to conclude a peace treaty.
- ECHR ruling on Lithuanian partisans: six key questions and answers
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in mid-March that Soviet repressive acts against Lithuanian partisans can be treated as genocide.