Back: Edis Obeliūnas, Victoria Valaityte, Margot Lattanzi, Tomas Ycas, Peter Stauskas, Rimi Kubilius, Renata Simonaviciute, Andrea Kmielauskaite. Front: Peter Fisher, Viktoras Zubrickas, Vaclovas the Kangaroo, Rimi Statkus, Vidas Kubilius. Missing: Gintas
Global LT

Australian-Lithuanian team Geelong Vytis participates in SALFASS sports festival in Cleveland

The Geelong Vytis sports club made history this month by participating in the 65th SALFASS (Šiaurės Amerikos Lietuvių Fizinio Auklėjimo ir Sporto Sąjunga) Sporto Šventė in Cleveland, USA on June 4-7. […]

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Politics

Lithuanian parliament to hold presentation of TV channel Ukraine Today

At the request of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Lithuania, the Seimas, parliament, is holding a presentation of the Ukrainian TV channel Ukraine Today, which is to be launched in Lithuania. The participants at the presentation in the European Information Office on Thursday will be welcomed by Benediktas Juodka, Chair of the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs, the press service of the Seimas said. […]

Linas Linkevičius
Politics

Fighting propaganda with bans is not the best way, Lithuanian foreign minister says

Commenting on recent reports that the rebroadcasting of one more Russian TV channel could be suspended in Lithuania, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that such bans are not the best way to fight propaganda. Instead, he says, Lithuania should create high-quality alternatives. […]

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Opinion

Opinion: Homophobia and the ambiguous problem of individual freedom

The recent sensation around the homophobic Facebook post written by the Lithuanian DJ “Ten Walls” (Marijus Adomaitis) has generated – as usual in these cases – a number of polarized reactions, but most of all has re-opened once again the Pandora’s vase of the admittedly-difficult relation that Lithuania has with homosexuality, especially in times like this, when (finally, if I may add) issues of same-sex marriage are being addressed. […]

Edmundas Vaitekūnas
Society

Media watchdog might ban one more Russian TV channel from Lithuanian airwaves

The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania, which recently suspended broadcasts of a Russian TV channel, says it has sufficient evidence on violations by another Russian television to ban it from Lithuanian airwaves. […]

Economy

Technology and innovation centre opening in Vilnius

The Sunrise Valley Centre for Technology and Innovation is officially opening in the Lithuanian capital on Wednesday. […]