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EU leaders and officials pay their respects after Poland's “unimaginable catastrophe”. The European Union's three main institutions lowered their flags to half-mast...

Georgia should have had the respect and sense not to destroy that Soviet war memorial in Kutaisi. War cemeteries are poignant places, better suited for reflection than...

Unoccupied Britain would do well to reflect on occupied Britain before talking about others' wartime history. Tweak history a bit. Imagine that in 1940 Hitler and Stalin...

A Lithuanian philosopher rejects political calls for the Soviet Union's slaughter of Lithuanians to be labelled an act of genocide.

It says much that, in Russia, equating Stalin with Hitler might be deemed a criminal act. It is depressing that it even needed to be discussed. On Sunday in Vilnius, the...

Russia can do better than bully other countries to abandon complexities and fit their history into a Soviet straitjacket. Forget gas, nukes or Iran. The deep divide between...

Twenty years of perspective may instruct historians, but the most valuable lesson from Poland's first partly free elections comes from remembering how we Poles saw things...

Russians are infuriated by a Latvian film which reveals the extent of Nazi and Soviet collaboration. Being burnt in effigy on the streets of Moscow by nationalist hoodlums...

Physical fitness has brought Valdas Adamkus success at both ends of his life. In 1948, the 21-year-old Lithuanian won two gold and two silver medals at a track-and-field...

During the Second World War Finland committed the cardinal error of making an alliance with Hitler to fight Soviet Russia. It was what the English call “Hobson's choice”....

Read Russian internet and you would think that Estonia is a hellhole ruled by Nazi sympathisers who organise a grotesque form of apartheid, hypocritically endorsed by the...

Until the collapse of communism being an exiled monarch was merely thankless. Since then it has been cruelly disappointing. In Albania, Georgia, Hungary, Montenegro, Russia...

The monument to the Soviet ‘liberation' in September 1944, the bronze soldier standing in one of Tallinn's central squares, was one of the most hated monuments in Estonia...

Depending on your sympathies, your education and your historical experience, a giant bronze soldier in Tallinn may celebrate the liberation of the Estonian capital from...

Thanks to Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso, us lot who live around the Baltic at least know the basics of recent Spanish history. But European Parliament President Josep...

There is a book in Kaunas, Lithuania's fascinating second city, that I wish could talk. It's an atlas, published in Germany in 1922, and it is open at the map of Europe. But...

Professional soldiers from Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Estonia are busy going through their drills under EU bonnets and cockade, aiming to give a northern dimension to...

It is one thing to feel uneasy about Russia. It is another to see clearly how things can go wrong in practice. During the 1990s, the nasty scenarios were based on Russia...

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited world leaders to Moscow to celebrate the end of the Second World War on 9 May. This is indeed a date to celebrate: the...

Two MEPs present their views on what is likely to be the upcoming ASEM summit's most keenly debated issue. China has changed, but not enough. The ban must stay, says