Foreign affairs
Seimas speaker to visit Ukraine’s region bordering Russia-annexed Crimea
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, on Friday will visit Ukraine‘s Kherson region just north of the border with Crimea. […]
Month: September 2017
History
The Commonwealth Educational Commission: a new approach to teachers and education
Pope Clement XVI’s decree pronouncing the closure of the Jesuit Order reached the Lithuanian and Polish Commonwealth in 1773. Jesuits financed a number of schools in Lithuania and Poland, including the Academy of Vilnius. The state faced the tasks of making use of the huge wealth of the Order and of finding new supervisors of the schools or, in other words, of solving problems in the area of education. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanians’ ‘Marshall plan for Ukraine’ initiative making its way to Europe
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, and his Ukrainian counterpart discussed a proposed plan for EU financial aid for Ukraine, dubbed as “the new Marshall plan”, as they met in Kiev on Thursday. […]
CORPORATE
B. Matelis. R. Karbauskis’ strike at V. Landsbergis – insignificant on a historical scale
I believe that Seimas Speaker V. Pranckietis was earnest when he proposed to acknowledge V. Landsbergis as the factual head of state for when he was in the office of Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas […]