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Lithuania is on Wednesday commemorating the anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet pact that divided Eastern Europe on the eve o...

Russia doing a full-scale aggression against Ukraine. Every day we receive information about more and more victims. This war does not end only with rocket attacks, robberies and violence. Unfortunately, the goals of the Russian occupier are more global - it is an attempt not only to physically but also mentally destroy Ukrainians, to erase national identity in the occupied territories.

The national defence minister says that the act of vandalism against a monument to freedom fighter Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in Merkinė, southern town of Lithuania, is a humiliation of the “pillars of statehood”. It may be connected to Russia’s upcoming celebration of victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, he noted.

Exhibitions, Books, and Music to Look Forward to in May, June, and July 2023

Program/Project Management Job in Afghanistan, requiring 0-2 years of experience, from SI; closing on 11 May 2023

Born in 1929 in the shtetl of Janova, an almost entirely Jewish village just north of Kaunas, the writer and his family escaped the Holocaust in Soviet-controlled Central Asia

The writer was well-known for bringing attention to the Lithuanian-Jewish experience.

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 Soviet Union.

From the blog of Tomasz Cebulski at The Times of Israel

The 12 stories in 'The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories' explores father figures, displacement, war, and family lineage. Alternating between re