Vilnius

Food
Baltic ‘beet down’: Latvia and Lithuania clash over cold pink soup
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man at podium
Ukraine
Ukraine wins G7 security pledges but its path to NATO membership remains unclear 
Protesters hold signs
Refugees
‘We cannot close the door or turn the page’: Belarusian dissidents in Lithuania fear Lukashenko’s crackdown
Leonid Volkov wears a white shirt and raises his hand in the air while speaking in front of a blue and white background.
Global Politics
‘Fighting corruption in Russia is now being called extremism,’ says Alexei Navalny’s top strategist
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a candidate for the presidential elections in Belarus, greets people during a meeting in her support in Brest, Belarus, Aug. 2, 2020.
Global Politics
Belarus opposition leader: ‘We are fighting for the future of our children’
The author's 3-year-old daughter Leila has been occupying herself during the "stay at home" order in Boston amid the coronavirus outbreak by making cards and beaded necklaces for her preschool friends. 
COVID-19
How families around the world talk coronavirus with kids
A sunset with the silhouette of a mosque and man approaching
Immigration Rewind
How 16 Americans found family, faith and their immigrant roots — generations after their parents left their homelands
Jews digging a trench in Ponar forest, in which they were later buried, after being shot
Culture
Science confirms the incredible story of Lithuania’s Holocaust escape tunnel
European Humanities University, a Belarussian liberal arts school that's located across the border in Lithuania
Education
When Belarus closed its last liberal arts school, the university went into exile
Elena Narbutaitė, Menachem Kaiser and Jake Levine, October 15, 2010, preparing bagels for the first public bagel party and presentation of the Vilnius Bagel Project. Yalta Restaurant kitchen, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Food
Bagels disappeared from Lithuania after WWII … but now they’re back
Aga Ilwicka-Sheppard is a PhD candidate in Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. She was instrumental in getting the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts to send 3,000 Yiddish language books to Poland, including novels, dictionar
Arts, Culture & Media
This Polish grad student wants to help bring Yiddish back to life in Poland
Lithuania’s Nuclear Future
Estonia’s high-tech embassy
Cell phone credit shortage in Kenya