Like residents of dozens of eastern Lithuanian towns along the border with Russia’s closest wartime ally Belarus, residents in Barvoniskes trickled out of their hometown over recent months.

How Russia’s war closed pathways of commerce and culture in Polish and Lithuanian border towns Historically western European, Kaliningrad is an isolated chunk of Russia, wedged between Poland ...

With part of Lithuania now liberated by the Russian armies, a picture emerges showing Catholic priests in Lithuanian towns often actively though futilely intervening with the German occupation ...