Tricolour on the Vilnius TV tower
Society

Feb. 16 celebrations in Soviet Lithuania: from pieces of cloth to tricolour

Vytautas Bogušis, then a ninth-grade student, 43 years ago bought pieces of cloth for a hand-made yellow-green-red Lithuanian flag that his schoolmates raised in the Rasų Cemetery in Vilnius, the capital of the Soviet-occupied Lithuania, on the eve of Feb. 16, 1975. […]

Professor Vytautas Landsbergis
Society

Landsbergis in hospital, to miss Lithuania’s centennial celebrations

Lithuania’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis is in hospital being treated for flue complications and will miss Friday’s centenary celebrations, his son Vytautas V. Landsbergis confirmed on Thursday. […]

In a international military exercise in Lithuania
Defence

Lithuanian military brigade to be affiliated to German division

The Iron Wolf mechanized infantry brigade of the Lithuanian Armed Forces is planned to be affiliated to a German division, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. […]

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European Union

European Broadcasting Union concerned over Seimas scrutiny of Lithuania public broadcaster

Officials from the European Broadcasting Union say that the ongoing parliamentary scrutiny of the activities of the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) may undermine the independence of the public broadcaster. […]