As of 1996, various lustration laws of varying scope were implemented in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, the Baltic States ( Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia ), Germany, Poland, and Romania.

After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940, a policy against popular religious traditions was implemented.

( Christianity, a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu ), and its related observances:

In the terms of the truce, Lithuania had to surrender about a third of its territory to the nascent expansionist Russian state.

In 2013, IKEA plans to open its first shopping centre in Vilnius, Lithuania that will be the biggest furniture-selling mall in Baltic states.

* 1260 – The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Latvia maintains embassies in Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, the People's Republic of China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uzbekistan.

In the early 1990s, Lithuania restored its sovereignty and in the following years became integrated into the European political structures.

In 1274, the Great Prussian Rebellion ended, and the Teutonic Knights proceeded to conquer other Baltic tribes, including the Yotvingians in 1283 ; the Livonian Order completed its conquest of Semigalia, the last Baltic ally of Lithuania, in 1291.

During his reign Lithuania reached the peak of its territorial expansion, centralization of the state had begun, and the Lithuanian nobility became increasingly prominent in state politics.

The Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania established these powers upon its approval on October 25, 1992.

Lithuania became a member of the United Nations on September 18, 1991, and is a signatory to a number of its organizations and other international agreements.

Lithuania is a member of Baltic Council, since its establishment in 1993.

* Lithuania is represented in Luxembourg through its embassy in Brussels ( Belgium ) and through an honorary consulate in Luxembourg City.

* Luxembourg is represented in Lithuania through its embassy in Warsaw ( Poland ) and through an honorary consulate in Vilnius.

BI has roughly 1500 students in China through its close relationship with Fudan University in Shanghai, and is also the majority shareholder of the ISM University of Management and Economics ( previously known as International School of Management ) with around 2000 students located in Vilnius and Kaunas in Lithuania.

The city's importance began to grow in the Jagiellonian period, due to its position on trading routes from Lithuania and Ruthenia to western Europe.

The German Empire created several short-lived satellite buffer states within its sphere of influence after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: the ' United Baltic Duchy ', ' Duchy of Courland and Semigallia ', ' Kingdom of Lithuania ', ' Kingdom of Poland ', the ' Belarusian People ’ s Republic ', and the ' Ukrainian State '.

This kind of study reached its height in the 16th and 17th centuries when expertise in pilpulistic analysis was considered an art form and became a goal in and of itself within the yeshivot of Poland and Lithuania.

Vilnius (; see also other names ) is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 554, 060 ( 838, 852 together with Vilnius County ) as of 2011.

At its height it covered the territory of modern-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Transnistria, and portions of modern-day Poland and Russia.

Shortly after its defeat in the battle of Warsaw, the retreating Red Army, in order to delay the Polish advance, ceded the city to Lithuania after signing the Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty on 12 July 1920.

The city and its surroundings were designated as a separate state, called the Republic of Central Lithuania.

On 28 October 1939, the Red Army withdrew from the city to its suburbs ( to Naujoji Vilnia ) and Vilnius was given over to Lithuania.

On 11 March 1990, the Supreme Council of the Lithuanian SSR announced its secession from the Soviet Union and intention to restore an independent Republic of Lithuania.

The building complex “ Vilnius Business Harbour ” was built in 2008, and one of its towers is now the 5th tallest building in Lithuania.

The castle was of great strategic importance: it was used as a base for raids into central Lithuania in hopes that weakened Traidenis would discontinue his support of Semigalians who rebelled against the Order.

Panzerkorps, it defended Minsk and then conducted a fighting withdrawal against subsequent stages of the Soviet strategic offensive through Belarus, Poland and Lithuania, ending up in the Courland Pocket.

The cooperation between the Nordic Council of Ministers and Lithuania is a political cooperation through which experience exchange contributes to realization of joint goals.

In 72 appearances for France from 1976 to 1987, including 49 appearances as captain, Platini scored 41 times, a record for the French national team, which has since only been surpassed by Thierry Henry after scoring his 42nd and 43rd national team goals against Lithuania in a Euro 2008 qualifying match on 17 October 2007.

They produced a shock 2 – 0 win at home against Lithuania ; their goals were scored by Philippe Erne and Michele Polverino.

His debut for the under-19 team came against Germany on 14 February 2002, scoring two goals in a 3 – 1 victory, and his third and final appearance was against Lithuania on 21 April.

Fighter jets of NATO members deployed in Zokniai airport as soon as Lithuania acquired membership in the Alliance to provide cover for the Baltic airspace.

Due to military conquest and dynastic marriages the West Ruthenian ( Belarusian ) principalities were acquired by the expanding Lithuania, beginning with the rule of Lithuanian King Mindaugas ( 1240 – 63 ).

However, unrest at home and defeat on the Western Front forced Germany to abandon these favorable terms in favor of the Treaty of Versailles, by which the newly acquired eastern territories were agreed to sacrifice the land to Lithuania, Poland, and new nations such as Estonia or Latvia, and a series of short-lived independent states in Ukraine.

By the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in 1772, the adjoining countries of Russia, Prussia and Austria annexed large swaths of Polish-Lithuanian territory and acquired influence over the internal politics of the reduced Poland and Lithuania.

Algirdas of Lithuania acquired Bryansk through inheritance in 1356 and gave it to his son, Dmitry the Elder.

Russia acquired territories in Lithuania and Courland in the third patition.

According to historian Teodor Narbutt ( 1784 – 1864 ), the painting was acquired by Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania ( 1345 – 1377 ), as a war trophy from Crimea.

Algirdas not only succeeded in holding his own, but acquired influence and territory at the expense of Muscovy and the Golden Horde, and extended the borders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the northern shore of the Black Sea.

As the Grand Duchy of Lithuania expended into Slavic lands, the title to the acquired principalities was given to the Grand Duke's offspring or his other relatives.

Just before the Union of Lublin ( 1569 ), the four voivodeships of ( Kiev, Podlaskie, Bracław, and Wołyń ) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were transferred to the Polish Crown by direct order of Sigismund II Augustus while the Duchy of Livonia, acquired in 1561, became a condominium ( joint domain ) of both Lithuania and Poland.

Following World War I, the town became part of Lithuania when it acquired the Klaipėda region in 1923.

Russia acquired the whole of Lithuania and Courland ; Austria, the remainder of Galicia, and Podolia, including Kraków ; Prussia, the rest of Poland, including Warsaw, the capital ; and with that Poland ceased to exist as an independent country.