Central/Eastern Europe

Thousands of Women in Lithuania protest the invasion of Ukraine: Russian Women, Wake Up!

On Sunday, 27 February, crowds of women gathered near the Russian Embassy in Lithuania’s capital of Vilnius to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Just one day after a spontaneous invitation by several famous Lithuanian women […]

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe PACE
Central/Eastern Europe

Seimas’ Speaker calls for terminating Russia’s membership of PACE

Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, Speaker of the Seimas, proposes that Russia be expelled from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the grounds that Russia has seriously breached the Statute of the Council of […]

German PzH2000 shooting for the first time in Lithuania
Defence

Kasčiūnas on Russian threat and Lithuania turning into a West Berlin

Lithuania is becoming like West Berlin during the Cold War, says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Chairperson of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence. He said that strengthening the military forces is of paramount importance for […]

Rumeysa Gelgi recives certificate of the tallest living woman in the world in October 2021 from Guinness World Records
Society

Greetings to Lithuania from the World’s Tallest Woman

Standing at 215.16cm (7ft 0.7in), the world’s tallest woman talks about her experience using a wheelchair and sends her greetings to the people of Lithuania According to the Guinness Book of Records, the world’s tallest […]