News Highlights from November 30-December 7, 1998
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After more than a year of legal proceedings, a Vilnius court on December 3 found three Stalinist-era agents guilty of massacring a Lithuanian family over fifty years [...]

News Highlights from January 17—January 24, 2000
Baltic officials said on January 18 that they were optimistic about their prospects of winning NATO membership sooner rather than later—saying they expect to be ready to join the U.S.-led alliance by as early as 2002.
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Thursday—May 30, 2002
RIGA (BNS-CITY PAPER) A protester briefly handcuffed himself to Riga Mayor Gundars Bojars during an exposition in Moscow devoted to the Latvian capital, BNS reported. The man in his 20s, whose name was not given, was said to have been a supporter of the fringe communist group the Russian National Bolsheviks that has [...]

News Highlights from November 22—November 29, 1999
* Latvian police on November 24 arrested a retired security official for participating in Soviet repressions in the 1940s, part a long-running drive here to bring Stalinist-era agents to trial.
Vassily Kirsanov, 85, was charged with genocide. He is the fourth person indicted on similar charges since October, and the [...]

News Highlights from December 14—December 21, 1998
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Statues of Vladimir Lenin which once stood in city-center squares all across Lithuania will now be put on display in a rural forest, government officials announced on December 17.
Some 40 communist-era statues, including of Karl Marx and others associated with the founding of the Soviet Union, would be given [...]