Lithuanian filmmaker Alantė Kavaitė has won World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival for her film The Summer of Sangailė. The film had its world première at Sundance and was screened as the day one film, the Lithuanian Film Centre reports. […]
On 30 January, at a meeting in Vilnius, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius urged representatives of all governing bodies of the European Humanities University (EHU) to unite for a common goal, ensure smooth operations of the university, and meet its commitments to the students, the Belarusian society and international donor community, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]
On 1 February, Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius issued a statement on the killing of a Japanese journalist by terrorist organization IS. […]
Lithuanian school in Iceland, Trys Spalvos (Three Colours), strives to educate its small pupils’ artistic and creative abilities. It has therefore invited Icelandic writer and illustrator Áslaug Jónsdóttir, co-author of children’s books about the skrímsl, fantasy creatures similar to trolls, to visit Lithuanian children. […]
The United States is considering supplying arms to Ukrainian forces, the New York Times newspaper said on Sunday. […]
On 29 January, the Bank of Lithuania issued into circulation a 50-euro collector coin, dedicated to coinage in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. This is the first collector Lithuanian euro coin, the Bank of Lithuania said. […]
Fashion TV founder and owner Michel Adam has chosen Vilnius, Lithuania, as the site for a full feature film. Shanghai 1939: Exodus from Vienna is based on his mother’s true life story during World War II. […]
On 29-30 January, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas is attending the annual Nordic-Baltic Chiefs of Defence meeting in Kongsvinger, Norway, Lithuania’s Armed Forces said. […]
The new Greek government has agreed to impose more EU sanctions on Russia, while defending its right to shape European foreign policy, EUobserver reports. […]
On 28th January 2015, the Embassy of Lithuania in Sweden and the Embassy of Poland in Sweden jointly hosted the event to mark the transfer of duties of the NATO Contact Point Embassy from the Embassy of Lithuania to the Embassy of Poland. Event took place at the Residence of the ambassador of Lithuania. Lithuania held NATO Contact Embassy in Sweden functions in 2013-2014. […]
Kempinski Hotel Cathedral Square was named one of the “Top 25 Hotels in Europe” and “Top 25 Luxury Hotels in Europe” by TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel site. Kempinski Hotel Cathedral Square was also nominated as the No 1 hotel in Lithuania. […]
Anva Polytech, a rubber component producer from Sweden, is setting up a production facility in Lithuania, with the aim of creating 50 new jobs in the next 5 years. The factory, which will produce a variety of rubber components, will be established in Biržai town, Panevėžys County, Invest Lithuania said. […]
State Secretary of the Latvian Foreign Ministry Andrejs Pildegovičs met Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Vladimir Makey on the 23rd of January. The visit was formally related to the Latvian Presidency of the EU Council. The Latvian diplomat mentioned a few things, which seem to become traditional at the beginning of any presidential race in Belarus. […]
EU foreign ministers are keen to quickly add names to the Russia blacklist, according to draft document prepared for emergency meeting on 29 January, EUobserver reports. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the President of the Lutheran World Federation, Bishop Munib A. Younan, who is on his first visit to Lithuania, the presidential press service said. […]
Analysts at the Russian Institute for Strategic Research (RISI), a Moscow-based think tank that pushed hard for Russia to invade Ukraine, are now urging Moscow to overthrow Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko. […]
On 27 January 2015, Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, together with the delegation led by the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in Auschwitz, Poland. […]
With tensions flaring up again in eastern Ukraine after Russian-supported separatists attacked Mariupol, killing 30 civilians, policymakers and observers in Lithuania are particularly touchy when it comes to relations, or lack thereof, with Russia. Their ire can even fall on someone from their own team if he or she is as much as suspected of sympathies for Russia. […]
European Union leaders asked their foreign ministers on Tuesday to consider possible new sanctions on Russia in response to a rebel offensive in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reports. A final decision to impose them, however, is likely to be left to a summit next month. […]
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