Lithuania’s leader called the decision to join the Party a “youthful mistake” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda confirmed on Wednesday that he had joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1988, as reported by several media outlets.
Brussels has reportedly given up on confiscating over $200 billion of Russian central bank funds EU authorities see no legal avenues for confiscating frozen Russian central bank assets and are instead planning to use the profits the funds generate, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing a document.