From Russian Orthodox churches to UNESCO World Heritage sites, this whirlwind train journey that spans three countries is ...

Kaunas was once home to Lithuania's second ... In the summer of 1941, the Germans invade Lithuania, part of the war against the Soviet Union, and almost immediately, Jews are subject to violent ...

Dimbleby was the first broadcaster to enter Belsen. His report, which included a suggestion that starving inmates had resorted to cannibalism in order to survive, so shocked the BBC that they ...

The Last Decade of the Soviet Era" will take place in Vilnius from February ... with assistance from the Kaunas section of the Lithuanian Union of Art Photographers.

He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania ... a nurse at the local hospital. In June 1940, the Soviet Union invaded and occupied Lithuania, and Captain Puknys was pressed into involuntary service in ...

The recipe — like the decor — remains unchanged since the Soviet era. This paid content article was created for Visit Kaunas.

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

During the Cold War, many radical new designs in submarines were crafted by both the United States and their rivals in the Soviet Union. In some respects, however, the Soviet Red Navy had the more ...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s and 1960s ...

Keywords Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, communism, Warsaw Pact, liberalization, nationalism, Cold War, reform, peaceful coexistence, Iron Curtain Vatican reveals official cause of death of Pope ...