Mission Siberia
Jul 21, 2010
By Rokas M. Tracevskis

BACK FROM SIBERIA: On July 16, Evaldas Ignatavicius, Lithuania’s vice-minister of foreign affairs (right), and a participant of the Mission Siberia of young Lithuanians returned from the Sverdlovsk region of Russia, shown here at the Vilnius Railway Station.
VILNIUS - On July 16, 20 young Lithuanians arrived at the Vilnius Railway Station, back from their mission in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region. Lithuania’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavicius and other officials welcomed the participants of the expedition Mission Siberia 2010. During two weeks in Siberia, the young Lithuanians cleared the cemeteries of Soviet-era Lithuanian deportees and constructed wooden crosses there. They also met with some descendants of Lithuania ...
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