Salt to the Sea Archives - the Lithuania Tribune

Award-winning Lithuanian-American author explores “hidden history” in new novel

February 26, 2016 Dovilas Bukauskas 0

Rūta Šepetys, the critically acclaimed Lithuanian-American author of Between Shades of Gray, released a new book in the beginning of February called Salt to the Sea that follows the evacuation from East Prussia in 1945 and the tragic sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustoff – a relatively unknown tragedy that was the greatest maritime disaster in history. […]

Bad news from the Bank of Lithuania: here’s what they are forecasting

September 27, 2023 0

Several months have passed since the Bank of Lithuania’s last forecasts. The latest one, presented by the steward of the financial markets, shows both promising and not-so-good developments. The Bank of Lithuania projections that this […]

John F Tefft, at the conference. Photo by Jonas Petronis

Former US Ambassador Tefft: the war situation has further alienated the Russian government from the population

September 22, 2023 0

Former Ambassador John F. Tefft, visiting from the United States for Leonid Donsky’s 6th conference “Will Russia Survive 2024?”, says that Russia’s fate is difficult to predict and depends on the outcome of the war. […]

Investment in military-use technologies: trap or opportunity?

September 22, 2023 0

Against the background of the war in Ukraine, the national defence industry is becoming more relevant, and the possibilities of producing both dual-use and military-use-only equipment or providing military-related services in Lithuania are being discussed. […]