The Lithuanian Education and Science Ministry has unveiled a university network reorganization plan that calls for merging all universities in the country’s second-biggest city of Kaunas and dividing the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (LEU) between Vilnius University (VU) and Vytautas Magnus University (VDU). […]
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. […]
As part of its strategy of strengthening manufacturing capacities in Europe, the technology company Continental, is to build a new facility in the Kaunas region of Lithuania. The company plans to invest €95 million in the new unit, which will produce electronic components and create around 1000 new jobs over the next five years. […]
Following the departure of nine veterans, Gintautas Paluckas‘ Social Democrats are aiming to turn even further toward the political left and include more attention to employees, as well as raising questions linked to human rights, […]
Lawyer and public procurement expert Giedrius Ruseckas was appointed as Lithuania’s new justice vice-minister. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday opened a honorary consulate in Istanbul, which became the country’s 5th honorary consulate in Turkey. […]
A Vilnius court on Monday imposed restriction of freedom for Jurijus Subotinas, resident of the country’s eastern city of Visaginas, for publishing a comment that expressed support to Soviet deportations. […]
BAFL– Baltic American Freedom League, an L.A. based, national Baltic freedom preserving organization. BAFL President Valdis Pavlovskis, former Defense Minister of Latvia, led the group consisting of BAFL Vice-President Ivars Michols, Director and Editor of The Baltic Bulletin, Imants Leitis, and Director and Editor of The Baltic Caucus Update, Alexandra Kudukis, visited Washington D.C. September 25-29 2017 to inform and to educate our lawmakers on the most pressing issues pertaining to Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has left for an official visit to the United Arab Emirates, saying that the main aim of the visit will be to finalize exports certificates for meat and eggs. […]
On the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions in Russia, Lithuania’s Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas paid tribute to the victims in Moscow. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is leaving for Finland this week for an annual meeting of Nordic and Baltic prime ministers, which Lithuania’s government representatives expect to result in agreements on energy projects. […]
The United States have ceased permanent rotation of its Land Forces troops in Lithuania, however, will continue sending them to exercises, says US Lieutenant General Ben Hodges. […]
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, outgoing commander of the US Army Europe, arrived in the General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Area on Saturday to view international exercise Iron Wolf II. […]
Šarūnas Rameikis and Vytautas Giržadas have resigned as deputies of the Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigation Service‘s (FNTT) chief Antonis Mikulskis. They stopped performing their duties last Thursday. […]
The Lithuanian Armed Forces will set up an artillery battalion in Pajūris, a small town in the district of Šilalė, as part of a brigade that is being formed in the western part of the country. […]
Recently we have been looking for an Idea for Lithuania. However often they are created in a vacuum where it appears that Lithuania does not live surrounded by various friendly or unfriendly neighbours which have various interests. Those ideas, however good, do not include geopolitics and international relations, upon which the development of our state greatly depends. […]
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Lithuania supports the territorial integrity of Spain and calls for dialog in solving the crisis over the Catalan independence declaration as a confrontational path will mean riots and victims. […]
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