Semi-automatic FN SCAR-H PR
Society

Amid growing EU control, Lithuania keeps semi-automatic guns with riflemen

As the European Union (EU) decided to step up control of some weapons in the wake of terrorist attacks, Lithuania intends to leave the right for members of the Riflemen’s Union and other volunteer troops introduced a year ago to keep their semi-automatic weapons. […]

Kuršis
Defence

Lithuanian warship to be tested for readiness in Belgium

The Lithuanian Navy’s minesweeper Kuršis is attending a combat readiness check in Belgium starting Monday. […]

Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Society

Unique Jewish archive being revived in Vilnius

As a result of intensified Jewish studies in Vilnius, scientists have this year identified thousands of valuable Jewish manuscripts that were hidden in the basement of a church in the Lithuanian capital during the Soviet occupation period and remained scattered among different archives for two decades after the country regained independence. […]

Efraim Zuroff, Rūta Vanagaitė
CORPORATE

Public letter by R. Vanagaitė: I admit I was mistaken

Writer and journalist Rūta Vanagaitė admits in a letter released on Friday that she was mistaken and regrets her “hasty and arrogant public comments” regarding resistance leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. She admits she was mistaken in […]

Lithuanian Republic Presidential Palace
CORPORATE

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 […]