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Klaipėdos Kovas junior club in Ireland. Photo Donatas Streckis

Junior rugby players from Lithuania show class in Ireland

February 25, 2016 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

Rugby is a fast-growing sport in tiny Lithuania, where almost every city now has its own club. One of the growing clubs in the country is Klaipėdos Kovas. Its junior squad made history as the first Lithuanian club to play in Ireland and also to claim a victory. […]

Rising star of Lithuanian rugby trains with England national team

February 6, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Rising Lithuanian rugby star Jonas Mikalčius had a unique opportunity to rub shoulders with England‘s finest players this week as his team, Hartpury RFC, trained with England National Rugby Team preparing for the Six Nations tournament. […]

Lithuanian rugby team’s Olympic dreams hampered by underfunding

January 29, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

Rugby is one of the fastest growing sports around the world. England and Australia are leading, but other countries such as Spain and the Netherlands are breathing on the backs of the leaders. Lithuania is moving forward as well. The 32-year-old Lithuanian women’s team coach Donatas Streckis spoke exclusively with The Lithuania Tribune about Lithuanian rugby. […]

Rugby Union: Lithuania inspired by fans

October 27, 2014 Alex Tigani 0

Lithuania’s national coach Ntando Majokweni-Manyosha has stated that he was pleased with his youthful talents who held off an experienced Hungarian national team 38:29 in Šiauliai. […]

Rugby Union: Lithuania display dominance

October 20, 2014 Alex Tigani 0

Lithuania’s national rugby team has commenced its European Nations Cup tournament in style thanks to a dominant 34:15 win in Andorra before a small crowd of 500. […]

After Nausėda meeting with Budrys, the opposition retorts to the candidate’s “cooling off “

November 22, 2024 0

Kęstutis Budrys, the President’s Senior Adviser, who has been nominated for the post of Minister of foreign affairs, does not say whether he first discussed the possibility of taking up the post with President Gitanas […]

“No need to mince words”: an assessment of what Trump’s victory means for Lithuania

November 6, 2024 0

“We can shout very loudly, but it won’t change the position of the American people,” says Professor Tomas Janeliūnas, as the winner of the United States of America’s (USA) presidential election, which will almost certainly […]

Another year in the sovereign history of Kazakhstan

October 24, 2024 0

Republic Day has been celebrated in Kazakhstan as the main national date since 2022, giving new life to the fundamental document on state sovereignty—the Declaration of October 25, 1990. The Republic is a modern form […]

In the assessment of NATO’s readiness for war with Russia, there is also a warning about the Baltic states: what is the Kremlin’s wild card?

October 23, 2024 0

According to Lrytas.lt, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) faces a new geopolitical reality with the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. While the Alliance has begun responding to emerging threats, its readiness for […]

These parties will enter the Seimas for the third time in a row. How many votes did they lose, and how many did they gain?

October 15, 2024 0

As various parties emerge, disappear or reorganize themselves in the political space, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats – TS-LKD) and the Liberal Movement are making […]