A group of Lithuanian MPs have suggested that parliament should have a say on issues concerning refugee resettlement. Meanwhile the ruling Social Democratic Party has offered a political agreement among Lithuania’s major parties, saying that an issue as sensitive as asylum seekers should not be made the topic for electoral campaigning. […]
On 30 September, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius took part in a high-level event, which was co-hosted by France and Mexico on the restraint of the veto in the Security Council in situations of mass atrocity, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Lithuania actively supports the initiative that was proposed by France and Mexico, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]
What is the best Lithuanian cuisine can offer – beer brewed according to the old tradition, traditional tree cake (lit. šakotis) or traditional seacoast fish soup? It will become clear in mid-November, when the best Lithuanian gastronomic project will be announced. […]
India’s Minister of State for Agriculture, Mr Mohanbhai Kundariya, arrived in Lithuania to represent the Government and the people of India at the historic unveiling of a sculptural composition of Mahatma Gandhi with his Lithuanian friend Hermann Kallenbach. […]
Croatia is to open an embassy in Vilnius by the end of this year, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. […]
In preparation for their visit to Lithuania, the Swedish royal couple, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, dined at the Lithuanian ambassador’s residence in Stockholm on 29 September. […]
Russia launched airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday in what it says is an effort to weaken ISIS. “The main question is what Russia is actually fighting in this case, since Russia’s enemy is not exactly the enemy identified by the West,” says analyst Linas Kojala of the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Vilnius. […]
The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum presents the exhibit, Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad – In Unum – 10 Years of Investigations, from October 1 to November 22, 2015. […]
The United Nations Security Council has failed to adequately respond to the Syrian crisis, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said during a debate on the Middle East conflicts organized in New York on Wednesday. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is sceptical about Russia‘s airstrikes in Syria, saying that preliminary information suggests Moscow is not entirely honest when it says it is only targeting ISIS. […]
International military war games The Baltic Piranha are kicking of in Lithuania on Thursday that will involve troops from Belgium, Luxembourg and the United States. […]
Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius says that next year’s budget has been drafted to give a boost to the country’s slowing-down economy, noting planned increases in the minimum wage, in the non-taxable income tax threshold and in salaries for public sector employees will stimulate domestic consumption. […]
The Lithuanian Athletic Union of North America (ŠALFASS) and the US Lithuanian community both held their conventions on the same weekend, 25-27 September, in Cleveland, Ohio. […]
World Leaders Forum in Davos is one of the most prominent events where the leaders of the world meet. The only one youth representative from Lithuania – coordinator of Global Shapers network Andzelika Rusteikiene – has gained the opportunity to take a closer look at Forum. […]
Lithuanians flooded the small Irish town of Ballinrobe, in the west of the country, on 25-27 September for the traditional event “We Still Need Wings”. The celebrations were meant to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the feat of a Lithuanian pilot who crossed the Atlantic in 1935. […]
In her address to world leaders at the UN General Assembly, President Dalia Grybauskaitė underlined that the United Nations was not adapted to the challenges of today and needed immediate reform. […]
On 24 September, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini, who was visiting Lithuania, to discuss bilateral political and economic relations, regional cooperation and key issues on European agenda, including migration, the security situation in the region, relationship with Russia, the situation in Ukraine, cooperation in the fields of energy and transport, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]
Constructions of military infrastructure necessary for installation of new long-range radars and contracted for by the Lithuanian Armed Forces begins in the 1st (Antaversis village, Prienai district) and the 3rd (Degučiai village, Šilutė district) radiolocation posts of the Lithuanian Air Force, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
After a successful experiment at the first session it was decided that each week’s session would start with an intriguing article from a different prewar Vilna Yiddish newspaper. In addition to reading from the photocopies provided, participants will be able to view the original newspaper. The session, which lasts an hour-and-a-half total, will then move on to the literary text being read. This Sunday the circle will start reading a humorous text by Der Túnkeler, “The Dark One,” pseudonym of Joseph Tunkel (1881 – 1949), a Litvak Yiddish humorist born in Bobruisk, now in Belarus. […]
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