Lithuania intends to turn away from its past. Specifically, the Ministry of Culture is proposing fines for the possession of Nazi and Soviet symbols with the intent to distribute them, according ...

Lithuanian, the most conservative of all Indo-European languages, is riddled with references to bees. In mid-January, the snow made the little coastal town of Šventoji in north-west Lithuania ...

Francesca Allen’s ‘Plaukai’ documents the annual contest, which speaks to the folkloric significance of long hair in Lithuania ...

Lithuania's parliament has passed the toughest restrictions anywhere in the former Soviet Union on the public display of Soviet and Nazi symbols. It will now be an offence in the Baltic state to ...

Romuva, Lithuania's neo-pagan tradition, has attracted thousands of followers since the country broke free from the crumbling Soviet Union in 1990. Petras Malukas, AFP.

Dancing around a blazing fire with garlands of wildflowers in their hair, members of Lithuania's Romuva neo-pagan community mark the summer solstice, as the Baltic state undergoes a revival of its ...

Hate groups have been pulling symbols, words and ideologies rooted in European pagan belief systems to advance racist beliefs for decades. Criminologist and civil rights attorney Dr. Brian Levin has ...

Alice Cutter said the shawl had been given to her in Lithuania by a friend she was visiting A woman accused of being a neo-Nazi terrorist has told a court her Swastika-covered shawl was a "pagan ...

Dancing around a blazing fire with garlands of wildflowers in their hair, members of Lithuania's Romuva neo-pagan community mark the summer solstice, as the Baltic state undergoes a revival of its ...