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History

The sacrifice of captives

Human sacrifice is attributable to the most forbidding customs of ancient tribes. Among Asian and European cultures, it permeated unevenly. The Greek myths speak of human sacrifice but historical sources provide no data of any actual practice of the kind. In the ancient Greece, it was considered an old yet no longer exercisable rite replaced by the sacrifice of animals. Although the gladiator fights point to the fact that the Romans enjoyed terrifying shows, neither can they be associated with the human sacrifice as a common feature of their customs. […]

Kęstutis Girnius
CORPORATE

K. Girnius. Lithuanian-Israeli friendship, but where are the values?

Lithuanian relations with Israel are particularly good compared with many other European Union states. This is laudable, remembering how much local collaborators contributed to the murder of Lithuanian Jews during the Holocaust. But we must […]

Aurelijus Veryga
Politics

Seimas to vote on interpellation to health minister

The Lithuanian parliament will vote on Thursday on the opposition’s interpellation to Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga. […]

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Defence

Croatian soldier’s body flown from Lithuania to Zagreb

The body of a Croatian soldier who died in Rukla, a town in central Lithuania where NATO‘s multinational battalion is based, on Wednesday was flown by a Lithuanian military transport plane to Zagreb, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said. […]