The Lithuanian parliament has passed a law banning promotion of “totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and their ideologies” in public places.The ban will apply to any form of commemoration or representation of persons, symbols, information linked to totalitarian or authoritarian regimes and ideologies.The law is meant to provide a legal basis to remove Soviet-era monuments, memorials, street names, and other objects from public spaces.The prohibitions will not apply to museums, archives, libraries when organising exhibitions, informing the public about totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and their consequences, and using such objects and information for the purposes of education, scholarship, professional art, and collecting.It will be up to the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre or municipal authorities to decide if an object falls under the law."