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Lithuania gets spot in 2nd Eurovision semi-final
Lithuania will perform in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 on May 12, according to the results of the allocation draw on Monday. […]
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War and Peace director Tom Harper: ‘I felt like an army general myself, but with less severe consequences’
Tom Harper, director of the BBC‘s latest adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s epic War & Peace, returns to Vilnius, the backdrop of many of the series’ scenes, for the first screening in Lithuania. David van Roon of the Lithuania Tribune speaks with Harper about Lithuania’s most beautiful film locations, local cuisine and how directing an army of actors in a battle scene is not all that different from commanding an actual army. […]
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Historic and modern Vilnius in then-and-now photos celebrate city’s birthday
On this day in 1323, Grand Duke Gediminas, the ruler of Lithuania at the time, wrote a letter that has become the first known historical mention of the name of Vilnius. This January 25th is the Lithuanian capital’s 693rd birthday! […]
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Funding for Lithuanian filmmakers to increase in 2016
The Lithuanian Film Centre is set to increase its funding and support for Lithuanian filmmakers to €2.66 million in 2016 and expects the number of foreign productions filmed in Lithuanian to grow in the year ahead. […]
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Lithuanian treetop walk receives UNWTO tourism innovation award
A treetop walkway in Anykščiai has been awarded as one of the most innovative tourism projects at the UN World Tourism Organization’s (UNWTO) 12th Excellence and Innovation in Tourism awards. […]
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Moments from Maidan captured by Lithuanian photographer up for Oscar
Director‘s Evgeny Afineevsky film about the conflict in Ukraine, Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, which includes much of DELFI photographer‘s Artūras Morozovas footage and photos, was nominated in the best documentary film category in the upcoming Academy Awards. […]
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Photographer gives drone’s-eye view of winter in Lithuania
Lithuanian photographer Karolis Janulis uses a drone to take breath-taking photos of Vilnius and the countryside from above. […]
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Vilnius to get new modern art gallery
A new Modern Art Centre is to be built in Vilnius by 2019. The design of a modern building by the Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind has been recently announced, and the construction is set to begin in 2017, Vilnius Convention reports. […]
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Hill of Crosses photo receives honourable mention in National Geographic contest
When the National Geographic published its list of winners of its annual photography awards, one photo among the honorable mentions seemed very familiar to Lithuanians. Photographer Hideki Mazuta had captured a photo of a girl with a pink dress running through Kryžių Kalnas, a famous religious monument in Lithuania. […]
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International recognition for Kaunas orchestra’s recording of Verdi opera
A studio album of Giuseppe Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra opera that was recorded by the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra received international recognition when it was named the Editor’s Choice opera album by the influential Opera News magazine in New York, the Kaunas City Municipality reports. […]
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First raising of Lithuanian tricolour flag to be honoured on Gediminas Tower
On 1 January 2016, Vilnius residents and guests will be able to attend a solemn ceremony on Gediminas Tower to mark the day in 1919 when the Lithuanian tricolour flag used today was first flown. […]
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Kaunas joins UNESCO Creative Cities Network
Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas has become the first Central and Eastern European city granted the status of a UNESCO design city in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, reports Invest Lithuania, the state investment promotion agency. […]
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Store-bought kūčiukai Christmas cookies more popular than traditional home-made variety
Though kūčiukai, the tiny Lithuanian poppy cookies baked for Christmas Eve (Kūčios), have traditionally been hand-made for the holidays, 64 percent of Lithuanian consumers prefer buying these cookies from supermarkets instead, according to a survey performed by the RAIT survey company. […]
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Monument cast from Litas coins commemorates first central banker
A monument to the first manager of the Bank of Lithuania, Vladas Jurgutis, has been unveiled near the headquarters of the Bank of Lithuania. […]
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Winners announced for 2015 Lithuanian National Prize for Culture And Art
The laureates of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Art 2015 were announced on Thursday at the Ministry of Culture. […]
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Documentary about Lithuanian folk singers to première at Stanford’s Baltic Film Series
After sold-out premières in Vilnius, Lithuania, and New York, new documentary film “Land of Songs” will have its West Coast Première on the closing night of Stanford University’s 2015 Baltic Film Series. […]
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Vilnius Yiddish Reading Circle turns to Lithuanian Yiddish women educators
The Vilnius Yiddish Reading Circle, which is celebrating its seventeenth year, has been concentrating this autumn on prewar Yiddish newspapers from Vilnius and Kaunas (Vílne and Kóvne, to use their Yiddish names), trying to balance literary materials with entertaining episodes of the day and the light they shed on a now-vanished civilization that once thrived here. […]