Foreign affairs
Lithuania provides EUR 10,000 in aid to hurricane-hit Dominica
The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Friday that it has allocated 10,000 euros in aid to the Hurricane Maria-hit Caribbean island of Dominica. […]
Month: November 2017
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New Lithuanian president: revolution or successorship?
Political analyst Rimvydas Valatka says that the strongest candidate in the presidential elections will be the one who will dismiss the two terms of President Dalia Grybauskaitė. Meanwhile political scientist Tomas Janeliūnas believes the opposite […]
Society
Military historians search for Lithuanian independence fighters’ graves in Vilnius
Military historians are researching whether or not some participants of the Lithuanian independence wars of 1918-1920 were buried in Vilnius’ Antakalnis Cemetery. […]
Foreign affairs
CPC Congress Concludes, Leading China into a New Era
The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) concluded on October 24, 2017, enshrining Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era into the Party Constitution and installing a new Central Committee and a new Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). […]
Global LT
North America – the Lithuanian Physical Education and Sport Union meets in Cleveland
Last Saturday, October 28th, The Lithuanian Club of Cleveland, Ohio, hosted the annual convention of the largest ex-pat Lithuanian sports amateur organization in North America- the Lithuanian Physical Education and Sport Union. Among many of the most relevant sports-related issues to overseas Lithuanians, the group discussed the success of the 67th annual Games in the Mississauga suburb of Toronto (Canada), Hamilton Challenges in Toronto, and the record-breaking success of the US-Canadian Lithuanian delegations participating in the anniversary Lithuanian World Sport Games in Kaunas this summer. […]
Foreign affairs
Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov visits Lithuania
Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov of the Republic of Macedonia is paying a working visit to Lithuania on Friday. […]
Economy
Lithuania wouldn’t mind linking EU support to reforms – finmin
Lithuania would not mind if the post-2020 European Union (EU) financial assistance would be linked with a specific country’s performance in structural reforms, says Lithuania’s Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka. […]
Economy
Lithuania should ready for decline in EU support funds – MP
Lithuania should prepare for a possibly drastic decline in European financial aid in the new European Union (EU) budget after 2020, says MP Stasys Jakeliūnas, chairman of the parliamentary Committee for Budget and Finance. […]
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National myth is not simply history. Open letter to the German historian
Dear Christoph, I write to you because we have known one another for a number of years and interacted closely for a time. I read your comment on the Delfi news portal and let me […]
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German historian evaluates R. Vanagaitė’s statements – there is a way forward
Writer Rūta Vanagaitė did not incite and encourage hatred or publically urge to kill. Instead of demonising her and segregating, instead we should find out whether R. Vanagaitė made use of sources by historiographically suitable […]
Culture
We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. It’s Hard to Leave Lithuania, Especially for a Farmer
This is an extract from the book “We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. 18 Stories of Refugees 1940-1944” (compiled and edited by Dalia Stakė Anysas, Dalia Cidzikaitė and Laima Petrauskas VanderStoep, published by Aukso žuvys, 2017). The book is an impressive collection of reminiscences about emigration by Lithuanians to the West during World War II. The conversations with émigrés that are central to the book bring new knowledge about wartime reality and provide insight into the meanings of home and place, and the social impact of the geopolitical upheaval when the state’s sovereignty is annihilated. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s president ranks 68th on Forbes’ list of most influential women
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė ranks 68th among the world’s 100 most powerful females published by the US magazine Forbes. […]
Culture
First English language translation for award winning Lithuanian writer
Despite being one of Lithuania’s most prominent writers, winning an array of awards and selling more than a million copies of his novels in Russian, Grigory Kanovich is virtually unknown to English readers. […]
Defence
Lithuania plans to raise military salaries
The Lithuanian government plans a 30-percent increase in military salaries by the end of 2020 compared with 2016, with over 88 million euros in state budget funds to be provided for this purpose over the next three years, according to a draft budget approved by the Cabinet. […]
Economy
EU’s Oettinger promises to back Lithuania on Ignalina N-plant closure funding
EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger promises to help Lithuania to secure further EU funding for the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), saying that the country would not be capable of bearing such a heavy financial burden on its own. […]
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The cost of R. Vanagaitė’s love
The day when the publishing house decided to have nothing more in common with Rūta Vanagaitė, I met with Efraim Zuroff. The only question I was interested in was what the documents being taken to […]
Society
PM sees no need for Lithuania to review its stance on Lithuanians’ role in Holocaust
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that Lithuania does not need to review its attitude toward Lithuanians’ role during the Holocaust. […]
Economy
EU promises further funding for Ignalina N-plant closure – Seimas speaker
The European Commission remains committed to providing funding for the decommissioning of Lithuania’s Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, said after meeting with EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
Society
Lithuanian Jewish Community dissociates itself from allegations against partisan leader
The Lithuanian Jewish Community (LJC) has dissociated itself from publicly made allegations that Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, a Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander, was possibly involved in Holocaust crimes. […]
Economy
EU must help Lithuania fund Ignalina N-plant closure – PM
The European Union must continue to provide funding for the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) as Lithuania is not capable of financing the project on its own, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said ahead of Thursday’s meeting with EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger. […]