Polish-Jewish Displaced Persons in a Camp near Zeilsheim in 1946. Curtesy of USHMM Washington
Society

Seminar to look into Lithuanian-Jewish experiences as deportees and displaced persons

Colloquium Vilnense invites you to a session at Vilnius University on the survival of Lithuanian Jews in the GULag and their way to Displaced Persons Camps after the end of the war. Violeta Davoliūtė (Vilnius) and Markus Nesselrodt (Berlin) will present their ongoing research. […]

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Foreign affairs

Grybauskaitė congratulates Finland on national day

On 6 December, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to President Sauli Niinisto of the Republic of Finland on the occasion of the country’s national holiday – Independence Day, the presidential press service said. […]

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Economy

Lithuania has great opportunities to develop advanced logistics services,transport minister says

The total investment in Lithuania’s transport sector during the new EU financing period is likely to be more than EUR 5 billion, whence 47 percent will be used to modernise Lithuanian railway network and 36 percent to modernise road infrastructure (26 percent in pan-European highways, 6 percent in municipality roads and 4 percent in national and regional roads). […]

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Foreign affairs

Lithuanian foreign minister among best connected world leaders on Twitter

A study by Twiplomacy shows that the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is among world’s best-connected diplomatic institutions on Twitter. With 64 mutual connections with peers and world leaders, @LithuaniaMFA is eighth on the list topped by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (@LaurentFabius). […]