The TV contest of candidates to run the EU member’s cultural capital took an unexpected turn One of the candidates for mayor of Kaunas in the upcoming local elections dropped a quote from Adolf Hitler during Monday evening’s debate on Lithuanian state television. The EU member state’s Jewish community has condemned the remarks as inappropriate…

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Helsinki had confiscated a cultural center and apartments of diplomats in connection to EU sanctions Russian state property in Helsinki which had been temporarily seized by local authorities has been released, the head of the Finnish Bailiff Department, Aki Virtanen, has told the media. Finnish authorities last week ‘impounded’ a Russian cultural center and diplomatic apartments, in a…