 It closely followed the lead of LTE.Its last volume displayed signs of the intellectual freedom that arose in the 1980s during the Glasnost movement in Russia and the Sąjūdis movement in Lithuania.In 2001, the Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute, based in Vilnius, began the publication of the 25-volume "Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija" or "VLE".