President Dalia Grybauskaitė making her annual State of the Nation Address
CORPORATE

D. Grybauskaitė “burned her fingers”: has the president shed the mask of infallibility?

“We have hampered the oligarchic occupation of the democratic system, though we painfully burned our fingers. Me included,” President D. Grybauskaitė said during her annual address on Tuesday in Seimas, LRT.lt writes. Furthermore, when talking […]

Dalai Lama
Foreign affairs

Dalai Lama congratulates Lithuania on statehood centenary

Tibet‘s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, currently visiting Vilnius, on Wednesday congratulated the people of Lithuania on the 100th anniversary of the restoration of the Baltic country’s statehood and called on them to enjoy freedom. […]

An Orthodox Christian with a cross
History

The History of the Polish Orthodox Church to Repeat in Ukraine?

The autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church seems to be closer and closer, and for some this will be a victory, recognition of independence and a great advantage on the eve of the coming presidential elections. However, almost a century ago, in 1924, a similar situation took place in Poland, and it resulted in persecutions of the autocephaly-granted church and a greater division. […]

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands
Foreign affairs
Kęstutis Girnius
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Kęstutis Girnius. Citizenship and other referenda

For a time now, discussions have continued for arranging a referendum on dual citizenship, changing a Constitutional article, which specifies that “except legally specified exceptions, no one can be both a citizen of the Lithuanian […]