On Friday, Lithuania is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a peaceful political protest in which around two million people formed a human chain spanning the three Baltic countries.
To mark the occasion, Vilnius is hosting a concert titled 650 Kilometres of Freedom, featuring more than 200 performers from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
The Gediminas Castle Tower in Vilnius, where the human chain began in 1989, is hosting educational workshops, guided tours of the Freedom Hall exhibition, and a discussion titled THE BALTIC WAY: The Human Chain That Made History.
The anniversary commemoration programme in Vilnius also includes an international relay run, and other events.
President Gitanas Nausėda and his Latvian counterpart Edgars Rinkēvičs will attend a Baltic Way commemoration event in Lithuania’s northern town of Pasvalys.
Commemorative events for the Baltic Way are also taking place in other Lithuanian towns, featuring discussions, exhibitions, marches, concerts, and film screenings.
Around two million Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians formed a human chain stretching over 650 kilometres from Vilnius’ Gediminas Tower to Tallinn’s Hermann Tower on August 23, 1989, to mark 50 years since the signing of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and its secret protocols that divided Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.
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