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

This Week in History: From missing monks to Soviet standoffs - Explore how major events between 23 and 29 March were captured ...

In the face of the Soviet Union – an empire that former US President Ronald Reagan famously called the “evil empire” for its ...

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 ...

SUKIONIAI, Lithuania — For the tiny village of Sukioniai in western Lithuania, the exploits of Gen. Storm, a local anti-communist hero executed by the Soviet secret police in 1947, have long been a ...

A dissident who promoted democracy and religious freedom, she was arrested by the K.G.B. After independence from Moscow, she was honored by Lithuania’s Parliament. By Sam Roberts Nijole Sadunaite, a ...

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 ...

Lithuania on Wednesday launched the trial of 65 former Soviet officials over a deadly 1991 crackdown by Moscow during he Baltic state's independence drive. "All these people are accused of crimes ...

VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuanian prosecutors said on Wednesday Russia's GRU military intelligence service had ordered the defacement of a monument to an anti-Soviet resistance leader in January 2024.

The Eastern European country has never punished one of its citizens for participating in the mass murder of Jews during the ...