Culture

Scholars offer recommendations for history policy makers of Lithuania and Belarus

Historical memory has a strong impact on the cohesion of political society. The historical memory of any given society is affected by a whole range of factors, such as the methodology and content of history teaching at school, the creation of various memorials and alternative sources of information about the past. Most of these factors depend on the political sphere and are a direct consequence of political or administrative decisions. In short, a consequence of state history policy. […]

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Defence

Lithuanian and Canadian defence officials discuss Baltic security

On 15 January, a delegation of the Ministry of Defence of Canada headed by Director General of International Security Policy Department Rear Admiral Gilles Couturier conducted a visit to the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania. […]

Linas Linkevičius
Foreign affairs

Linkevičius discusses bilateral and regional cooperation with Latvian, Estonian and Slovakian foreign ministers

On 16 January, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, Foreign Minister of Latvia, and Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, Foreign Minister of Estonia, who are taking part in the Snow Meeting. […]

Seimas of Lithuania
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian parliament calls for release of Ukrainians held by Russia

On Wednesday, the Committee on European Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Lithuanian Parliament adopted a resolution calling for immediate release of Nadiia Savchenko, Ukrainian military air force pilot, and other Ukrainian citizens illegally held against their will in the Russian Federation, the press service of the Seimas announced. […]

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Newsweek: Putin makes his first move in race to control the Arctic

In November, the Russian K-550 nuclear ballistic submarine Alexander Nevsky, submerged in the Barents Sea between Russia and the North Pole, successfully launched a missile that travelled its prescribed course to Kamchatka in Russia’s far east. The Alexander Nevsky thus joins two other Russian nuclear submarines, which have, in the course of the autumn, conducted successful ballistic missile tests. […]

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airBaltic – world’s most punctual airline

Latvian national airline airBaltic has been recognized as the most punctual airline in the world. […]