Lithuanian Republic Presidential Palace
Society

Lithuanian president to light up Christmas tree

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Wednesday light up a Christmas tree at the Presidential Palace in Vilnius and kick off the traditional Christmas of Books campaign. […]

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History

Toys and games in medieval Lithuania

Even in the times of gravest calamities and shortage, people did find time for games and other ways of making their everyday lives brighter, regardless of whether it was a ducal palace of a hut of a peasant family. In the 19th century, even the poorest peasants had simple wood-carved toys for their children. […]

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History

The family and the patriarchate in ancient Baltic societies

The family in the 13th and 14th century Lithuania represented a unit in many senses, from economical and productive to social, organisational, and legal. The average family consisted of five or six people. The remains of a 14th century house in the lower town of Kernavė feature a plank-bed, made of several benches, up to three by 1.7 metres. Since the average human of the time was about 1.65 metres tall, the bed could accommodate the entire family of five to six people. On the other hand, the family also had a broader meaning, the one that covered two or three generations of relatives, such as fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, as well as unmarried brothers and sisters. […]

Audrys Antanaitis
Politics

Seimas appoints new chief of language watchdog

Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday appointed Audrys Antanaitis, editor of alkas.lt news portal, as the new chief of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (VLKK). […]

Aurelijus Veryga
Politics

Lithuanian president’s adviser says Veryga ‘isn’t worst minister’

Lithuanian Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga, who may face an interpellation procedure in the parliament, “is not the worst minister”, an adviser to President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday. […]

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Defence

Lithuanian border guards to hold drills at border with Poland

Lithuanian border guards will reintroduce controls at the border with Poland for four hours on Tuesday as part of an exercise. […]