Rūta Vanagaitė
Opinion

Opinion: Why we have not, do not and will not talk about Holocaust in Lithuania

Vilijampolė, Kaunas, winter. The project “Being a Jew”. A group of thirty teachers led by a Jewish guide are standing in the former Kaunas ghetto. Houses, garages, storage spaces, wood piles where, during the war, thousands of Jews were herded like animals by the Nazis, where Jewish children played, and from where they were later taken to a square or to one of the Kaunas forts and shot. […]

Ambassador Valeriy Zhovtenko (Photo V. Aleksandravičius)
Uncategorized

Ukraine expects answers on visa-free regime with EU, ambassador in Vilnius says

Ukraine expects that the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga later this month will provide answers about the perspectives of visa-free travels to the European Union (EU), Ukraine’s Ambassador to Lithuania Valeriy Zhovtenko told BNS. […]

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Foreign affairs

Lithuania to focus on protection of civilians during its May presidency in UN Security Council

On 1 May, Lithuania takes over the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council. During the month of Presidency Lithuania intends to focus on protection of civilians – safety of journalists in conflict situations, threat posed by small arms and light weapons to the civilian population; as well as ways to combat the threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters, possible links between organised crime and human trafficking in the Mediterranean, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]

Antano Gedrimo nuotr.
Defence

NATO fighter-jets alerted by Russian war plane over Baltic Sea on Sunday

Fighter-jets serving in the NATO air policing mission in Lithuania on Sunday identified and accompanied a Russian airplane flying over the Baltic Sea with its transponder switched off. […]

NordBalt kabelį tiesiantis laivas
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Sweden and Russia to discuss NordBalt cable next week

Sweden and Russia will discuss the hindrances for the laying of the NordBalt cable next week. Sweden’s Foreign Ministry told BNS that the Lithuanian project should proceed without any obstacles. […]

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Foreign affairs

Lithuanian president congratulates UK’s Queen Elizabeth II on royal baby

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has congratulated Queen Elizabeth II and the people of the United Kingdom on the birth of the daughter of the Duke of Cambridge William and Duchess Catherine. […]