Tag: USSR (Former Soviet Union)

‘The Russian Language Is Everywhere Again’: Exiles Cause Unease in Lithuania

A pile of flowers blanketed a small memorial in the center of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius after the death of the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny last month. “Putin Is a Murderer,” read a placard in Russian. The impromptu tribute at the memorial, an unassuming pyramid commemorating victims of Soviet repression, has highlighted […]

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