Lithuania

Russia hits truck near Polish border in latest strike near NATO

Russia has begun targeting Ukraine's border crossings with its Western allies in recent weeks, part of a growing campaign by both sides to erode the other's economic infrastructure.

Police officers of the "Military Gendarmerie" stand guard in an area near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia, eastern Poland, 30 July 2026, where a flying object hit the ground and exploded in the early hours of the day, the fire service reported.
The Malisoff family sits for a photo in 1907. Pavel Malisoff and his wife Michla sit in the center.

How a new tool in Lithuania helps people read letters from their Jewish ancestors

The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, circa 1922

US antisemitism envoy pressures Lithuania to stop construction over Vilnius Jewish cemetery

A partisan bunker is seen in Rūdninkai Forest.

Lithuania's Jewish partisan bunkers caught between Holocaust memory and military expansion


Lithuania passes law allocating nearly $40 million for Holocaust survivors

The bill passed with an overwhelming, but not unanimous majority in the country with a checkered history in Holocaust remembrance.

 A view of the Lithuanian parliament and national library in Vilnius.

Israeli artist creates massive mural to celebrate 700 years of Vilnius


Kaunas, Lithuania: Culture celebration confronts Holocaust memory - opinion

For me, an invited Jewish journalist from Israel, most prominent in my mind is how this Lithuanian city would relate to both the multiple achievements of its Jewish community and its Holocaust memory

  KAUNAS VISTA: Liberty Avenue and the Church of St. Michael the Archangel.

Are neo-Nazi Russian groups planning attacks on NATO countries? - report

New developments suggest that the Kremlin may lose ties with far-right paramilitary organizations.

 NATO HEADS of states and governments look at a digital installation after posing for a photo during the NATO summit at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels in June 2021.

Ukrainian-Israeli Evgeny Merman art exhibition shown in Riga

 The Israeli ambassador Sharon Rappaport-Palgi and the artist Evgeny Merman

Lithuanian farmer burns grain for heat, cheaper than burning wood

Since imports of wood products from Russia and its ally Belarus were banned due to sanctions, wood pellets used for heating have soared to 600 euros per ton.

 Lithuanian farmer Petras Vaitelis inspects his furnace filled with oat grains to heat his house in Azuolaiciai, Lithuania November 14, 2022.

120 years since birth of religious Zionism to be commemorated in Vilnius

The visit in Vilnius, which launched the 120-year anniversary, is part of a week-long mission of World Mizrachi to sites of Jewish history in Eastern Europe.

 World Mizrachi members visit Vilnius for the 120-year anniversary of the birth of the religious Zionist movement.

Experiencing the Jewish past, present in Vilnius, Riga - opinion

My experiences in Jewish Vilnius and Riga on the ground, although brief, gave me an extraordinary opportunity to discover meaningful aspects of Jewish life in both places.

 BOYS SELL newspapers in the Jewish quarter of Vilnius, prior to World War II. It’s part of the urban-art project ‘The Walls Remember.’ The image from the original photo was transferred to an exterior building wall within the Jewish quarter to showcase conspicuous vestiges of everyday life.

Russian media figure fled to Lithuania on Israeli passport

Ksenia Sobchak, whose father was a mentor of Putin, fled Russia after being charged with extortion.

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Ksenia Sobchak, Pavel Grudinin and Sergei Baburin during a meeting with candidates who participated in the last presidential election, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 19, 2018.

Belarus ‘fully involved’ in Ukraine war, must be sanctioned - Lithuania

Belarus is “responsible just like Russia for the consequences of this war,” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said.

Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda speaks as he attends the European Union leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium, October 20, 2022.