A Vilnius Winter Sonata  Photo © Ludo Segers  @ The LIthuania Tribune
Freetime

Ludo Segers to feature Lithuania in photo exhibition in Brussels

On 5 April, an exhibition will open in Brussels with a selection of photos by Ludo Segers, a regular contributor of The Lithuania Tribune. The exhibition, entitled “A Place, A Time, A Reason?” will feature images photographed in Lithuania and during Ludo’s travels around the world.

Observers describe Ludo’s photography as a cross between narrative documentary and fine art, noting a high level of awareness that is required in photojournalism punctuated with magical moments captured in between assignments. Some of those exquisite instants will be on display in Gallery 74 in Brussels. […]

Žydrūnas Bartkus
Society

Seimas gives green light to appointing Bartkus as STT chief

Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday gave a go-ahead to the appointment of Žydrūnas Bartkus, 42-year-old master of law, to head the Special Investigation Service (STT), the country’s main counter-corruption agency. […]

Russian ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov
CORPORATE

Three Russian diplomats expelled: is Lithuania being modest?

Yesterday Lithuania expelled three Russian diplomats, or rather covert operatives working under the cover of diplomatic service. Last week’s statements by the president led to the belief that the number of expelled spies could have […]

Remigijus Šimašius, the mayor of Vilnius
Freetime

A tool launched to facilitate the integration of foreign nationals relocating to Vilnius

In order to facilitate the transition of foreigners invited to live and work in Lithuania’s capital a new digital tool, which takes the form of a Relocation Guide, has been launched. Developed by Go Vilnius, the city’s official business and tourism development agency, the guide provides all the necessary information for successful and smooth relocation to Vilnius according to each person’s individual situation. […]

March for Our Lives event in Vilnius
Society

March for Our Lives in Vilnius

Representatives of Vilnius’s American community, joined by local volunteers, held a “March for Our Lives” at Kudirkas Square on Saturday, March 24. The event was one of more than 820 such events held worldwide, inspired by the student activists from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Forida, where 17 students and teachers were shot dead on February 14, 2018, the organisers of the event wrote. […]

Photo collage by Gabrielės
Culture

Reflections on Soviet medicine in exhibition 03 by artist Gabrielė Gervickaitė

Gabrielė Gervickaitė joins photography and illustration in her investigative exhibition 03 that opens at 6 PM on March 28 at the gallery Meno Niša. The artist looks back at the Soviet period, in which she was born and came of age, as well as investigates the power structures of today and how these were shaped by Soviet imageries. […]

Russian Ambassador Alexander Udaltsov
Foreign affairs

Russian ambassador sees Lithuanian intelligence reports as attempt to justify anti-Russian policy

Russia’s ambassador in Vilnius says that Lithuanian intelligence reports are an attempt to justify the country’s anti-Russian policy. […]