Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, left, at the Presidential palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025.

This came more than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, ending the Baltics’ final ties to oil- and gas-rich Russia. For the three countries, as well as the rest of Europe, the move ...

Nearly 30,000 soldiers and police officers flocked to Rome February 8-9 for the Jubilee of the Armed Forces, the second major ...

Since it became independent in 1929, Vatican City has been the world’s smallest state. Every evening the gates close, leaving ...

The author of literary classics such as Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), is ...

Regardless of its leaders and its political and cultural expressions, Ukraine must be rebuilt not only in terms of its cities ...

Latvian translator Valda Salmiņa (born in 1962) earned a bachelor’s degree in philology with a specialization in German ...

The head of Russia's powerful Orthodox Church said in remarks published late on Tuesday that "weirdos" were trying to spread ...

Meet Leonid Numerchuk, the 39-year-old priest evacuating civilians from Ukrainian villages under Russian missile and drone ...

Lithuania said on Saturday it had disconnected its electricity system from Russia's power grid, part of a plan which the ...

The three Baltic states disconnected their electricity systems from Russia's power grid on Saturday, the region's operators ...

Viktor Yelenskyy emphasized that the Russian Orthodox Church not only supports the war but also persecutes its own priests and believers if they dare to pray for peace rather than for the victory of ...