For nearly 40 years, daring smugglers transported nearly 40,000 Lithuanian-language books into the nation each year when it was forbidden under Russian rule. Following the gentle bends of the ...

After several popular books of ... an 82-year-old Lithuanian widow who, after a Who’s on First-like exchange, insists on calling him Labas, which means “hi” in her language.

The book questions the existence of the Lithuanian language and the very statehood of modern-day Lithuania. Earlier this week, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys called the monograph a tool ...