Students at the University of Vilnius
Society

70 postgraduate students to get Lithuanian state support

Lithuania has earmarked financial assistance to 70 postgraduate students from seven countries, the Education and Science Ministry said on Monday. […]

Šarūnas Bartas
Culture

Frost by Š. Bartas selected to compete for the Academy Award

The decision was taken by the Lithuanian committee of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Frost, which is the latest work of the filmmaker Šarūnas Bartas, competed for the right to run for the prestigious award in the category of the best foreign language film with the other two candidates – The Saint directed by Andrius Blaževičius (2016) and Together For Ever by Lina Lužytė (2016). […]

Commemorating January 13 victims
Uncategorized

Vilnius court resumes 1991 crackdown trial, to open Soviet officer Kotlyarov’s case in October

The Vilnius Regional Court on Monday resumed, after a break of more than two months, proceedings in a mass trial over the January 13, 1991 bloody events in Vilnius with testimonies from victims of the Soviet military crackdown on pro-independence demonstrators. […]

Augustinas Žemaitis at the Zolochiv palace in Ukraine
Global LT

Looking for traces of Lithuania in the world

If you can find a sparrow, you will find a Lithuanian, an old saying goes. There are more than a million people of Lithuanian decent living outside of Lithuania, more than a half of this number in the USA alone.
Augustinas Žemaitis is a keen traveller who has been to more than 90 countries so far. In his numerous websites, he seeks not only to present Lithuania to foreigners and, but also to introduce Lithuanians to the countless traces of Lithuania that exist all over the world.
The Lithuania Tribune meet Augustinas to talk about it, before he is gone on the “Destination – America” journey, which will be his largest Lithuanian-locations-search journey so far, covering 11 states of the USA. […]

Petras Auštrevičius
CORPORATE

Lithuania and the foreign policy: what to do when you are on the bench?

Couple of weeks ago Lithuania’s former President Valdas Adamkus in his speech on regional leadership said that Lithuania gave up its leadership in the Eastern European and Baltic region which we have been demonstrating a […]

Workers
Economy

Lithuanian firms fear EU plans of equaling wages for posted workers

Some Lithuanian businessmen are following the efforts of some Western European countries and Brussels to unify salaries for posted workers within the European Union (EU) with concern. […]