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Lithuania picks Seneca’s Day as Oscar nominee
Seneca’s Day, a movie by director Kristijonas Vildžiunas, has been selected as the Lithuanian entry for Oscar candidate in the category of best foreign-language film. […]
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Kvietkauskas re-appointed to head Lithuanian Film Centre
Rolandas Kvietkauskas has been re-appointed as director of the Lithuanian Film Centre for a second four-year term, the Ministry of Culture has said. […]
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Octopi and spaceships: Creative freedom in Soviet bus stops
A Canadian photographer has spent 14 years travelling across what used to be the Soviet Union and taking pictures of bus stops which he says are fascinating and under-appreciated moments of creative flight. […]
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Lithuania guest of honour at Beijing Book Fair
Lithuania will this week attend the Beijing International Book Fair in China, its first ever participation in the event, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. […]
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‘I fear for Russia’s future’ – Sokurov in Vilnius
With anti-democratic sentiments growing among the Russian population, Alexander Sokurov, a prominent Russian filmmaker, says he feels great concern about his country’s future.
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Lithuania puts old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius under state protection
The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius has been listed among cultural objects protected by the state, under a decree signed by Lithuania’s Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis on Friday. […]
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Oldest building in Kaunas to be restored to its Renaissance glory
What is believed to be one of the oldest stone building in Kaunas will undergo major restoration. After the conservation-restoration works are complete, the building that faces the City Hall will regain some of its sixteenth-century façade.
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Young architects to transform the face of Nida
Lithuania’s coastal resort of Nida is hosting the European Architecture Students Assembly. Over the course of two weeks, some 600 architecture students from Europe will complete some 30 creative workshops.
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Poems of freedom in 23 languages across Vilnius
During a short ceremony in the joint Embassy of the Netherlands and Denmark, 23 poems of 23 EU member states were unveiled celebrating the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with the newly independent state of Lithuania 25 years ago. […]
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Join commemoration of Šeduva Jewish Community
75 years ago, a wave of brutal murders in some places within weeks and in others within months wiped out Jewish communities which had been building their lives across Lithuania for over six centuries. […]
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Regatta of historic boats along Lithuanian coast
A regatta of historic boats is to set sail on the Curonian Lagoon from Nida to Klaipėda.
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Listen to words of 8,000-year-old Indo-European language that sound surprisingly similar to Lithuanian
Linguists have recreated the sounds of the common Indo-European tongue spoken by the ancestors of most European nations 6,000 years ago. They sound surprisingly similar to modern Lithuanian.
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Lithuanian Mission Siberia team to go above Arctic Circle to save cemetery
The Mission Siberia project team lead by Arnoldas Fokas has left for Igarka in the Krasnoyarsk region on Sunday evening, where one of the largest Lithuanian exiles cemeteries is located. “This year the expedition will […]
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Lenin, the gallows and Lithuanian legends: The troubled history of Lukiškės Square
The history of Vilnius Lukiškės Square is a story shaped by Russian Tzars, Polish dictators and Lithuanian martyrs, all leaving their mark on it for better or worse down the centuries.
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LABAS! Festival breaks new ground with Lithuanian children
In May of this year, Acting Up! and Teatriukas (www.teatriukas.lt) teamed up together to present a project Labas! early years arts festival in Vilnius, Dubinigiai and Moletai regions in Lithuania. […]
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How Lithuania’s ham radio operators outfoxed the Soviets and helped win independence
Dictatorial regimes of all kinds have always sought to control communications, especially between those in their own countries and the outside world. With the Internet, their ability to do so has been much reduced; but it is important to remember that, even before the World Wide Web, their control was never quite as complete as many now think. In the struggle between those seeking freedom and those seeking to suppress it, the former have often been able to find ways to outfox the latter.
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The Top 10 restaurants in Lithuania
Over the course of several months and a number of stages, over 100 members of the Good Food Academy evaluated the food at Lithuanian restaurants to pick a top 10, also taking into account the quality of service, environment and drink menus.
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