Darius Staliunas is Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History. His academic interests include Tsarist nationality policy, ethnic conflicts, and places of memory in Lithuania and beyond. He is the author of Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (2007), Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars (2015), and Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883-1940 (2015).