Lithuania

Plus, Belgrade compromises on Kosovo border posts and Vilnius clamps down on beggars and alms-givers.

Plus, Lithuania rejects new CIA prisons probe, and a reconstructed Bolshoi makes its debut.

Plus, Amnesty International asks Lithuania to reopen CIA prison probe, and geocaching a hit with Czechs.

Plus, the Slovak premier barely survives a showdown and Hungary’s red sludge company is ordered to pay up.

Many in Lithuania say Vienna’s release of Mikhail Golovatov suggests that the duty to uphold “European values” applies more to some countries than to others.

Vilnius is dead-set against new nuke plants in nearby Belarus and Kaliningrad but continues to make plans for its own, even as public support for nuclear power shrinks.

The question of how to mark a history of occupation, oppression, and even homegrown brutality continues to dog Lithuanian-Jewish relations.

Those dreadful, Soviet-era orphanages still exist in Lithuania, thanks in part to that country’s so-called pro-family policies.

Some psychologists believe that the extremely high suicide rates in the Baltics and Russia are the legacy of Stalin and his successors.