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The Second Congress of Lithuanian Historians was held in Klaipeda, Lithuania, on September 10-12. The first such congress was held in Vilnius in 2005. The congresses, because of their newness to the country since independence from the Soviet Union, attracted considerable attention. This conference included a plenary session on broad topics of history at which members of the public were allowed to participate, and a session in which individual historians discussed recent research projects. The authors provide a synopsis of some papers and discussions -- a full conference report will be published at a later date -- and describe the attitudes, projects, and future prospects for Lithuanian historians officially united as a group. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]

This article presents a report of a conference held in Pskov, Russian Federation, on October 8-9, 2009, the theme of which was “Russia and Europe in 1939: The Soviet-German Non-Aggression Treaty--Forced Compromise or Long-Term Strategy.” Two historians from Vilnius Pedagogical University -- Professor Liudas Truska and Professor Juozas Skirius -- attended the conference, the first historians to represent that school in the ancient city of Pskov, thanks to the signing of an academic cooperation agreement in May 2009. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]