Yevhen Dykyi
Society

Lithuanian foreign minister thanks freedom defender from Ukraine

Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Wednesday delivered a letter of gratitude and a memorial gift to Ukrainian citizen Yevhen Dykyi who headed a group of Ukrainians defending the Lithuanian parliament in January 1991. […]

Vytautas Leškevičius
Foreign affairs

Vytautas Leškevičius proposed as Lithuania’s ambassador to NATO

Former deputy minister of foreign affairs Vytautas Leškevičius has been proposed as Lithuania’s permanent representative to NATO. […]

Artūras Paulauskas
Politics

Lithuanian parliament committee to discuss anti-terrorism measures

The Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence is going to convene on Wednesday to discuss preparations to combat terrorism. […]

Filmmakers, Jonas Ohman and Vincas Sruoginis.  Photo Ludo Segers
Global LT

13 January commemoration – The Invisible Front in Washington

On Tuesday, 13 January, the Lithuanian community and a large number of American guests commemorated in Washington’s University Club the day in 1991 when the Soviet army attempted to overthrow Lithuania’s legitimate government in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The attendants paid tribute to the 14 people killed and the over one thousand unarmed Lithuanian civilians injured when the Soviet army and Special Forces attempted to overtake the Vilnius TV Tower and the Lithuanian parliament – the Seimas. […]

Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė
Opinion

Opinion: What terrorists and Putin have in store for us

For days now many in the global and Lithuanian media have locked horns over the terrorist acts in Paris. There are some who say that freedom to express one’s convictions is above any religious or social group interests; others contend that cartoons published by the likes of Charlie Hebdo made merciless mockery of believers’ feelings, that they cannot be subsumed under the “social group” category and have nothing to do with freedom of expression. […]

Georgia
Uncategorized

Georgia honours January 1991 victims in Lithuania

Georgia has also commemorated the 24th anniversary of the Lithuanian Freedom Defenders’ Day, honouring the fallen victims of the Soviet aggression back in tragic events in 1991. […]