Following a prolonged public debate, this week Vilnius authorities have removed four groups of Soviet-era statues that have stood on the Green Bridge since the early 1950s. What remain are four empty-looking pedestals overlooking the banks of the Neris River. People of Vilnius have already started making proposals for what should replace the old statues. […]
The 15th T-Mobile New Horizons film festival opens in Wrocław on July 23. Among other films it will feature the most distinct Lithuanian films created from 1959 to 2015. The special film programme Focus on Lithuania includes a record number of 30 features tracing the complex history and culture of the country during the Soviet period, the path to independence, and the decades of sovereignty. […]
Renovation works of the synagogue on Gėlių Street in Vilnius has been started, the Department of Cultural Heritage said on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Welles Declaration on 23 July in Washington Square in Vilnius at the event Together We Believe in Freedom. The declaration marked the beginning of the United States‘ non-recognition policy of the occupation and annexation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is in Italy on a working visit, has opened an exhibition entitled Historical Ties between Milan and Lithuania: Bona Sforza and the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Milan’s Sforza Castle, the presidential press service said. […]
Vilnius authorities plan to start the removal of the Soviet Green Bridge statues next week and it will take up to two week to complete the work, a spokesman for the municipality said on Thursday. […]
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says he doubts there is a need for the Moscow House in the Lithuanian capital which is being constructed. […]
One of the most sensational choirs of Chicago will throw a concert in Lithuania to celebrate its anniversary. […]
Play a drinking game while reading novels by Orhan Pamuk. […]
Ninety-three foreigners will attend Lithuanian-language courses at five Lithuanian universities during July and August. […]
Eurimages, the Council of Europe‘s film support fund, extended a grant of EUR 50,000 to the film Deadweight directed by Ignas Miškinis. The film is produced by Tremora (Lithuania) and coproduced by Film Angels Productions (Latvia), reports the Lithuanian Film Centre. […]
One of Lithuania’s most renowned photography artists, Antanas Sutkus, will receive an award of the French minister of culture. […]
Vilnius University (VU) has been invited to join the Coimbra Group as of 1 January 2016 – the network of prestigious European universities, the university said in a report. […]
The Government has made a decision for Lithuania to participate in the EXPO 2017 International Exposition which will take place during three summer months of 2017 – from 10 June to 10 September – in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan. […]
Vilnius Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) students say studying French language has been “an incredible experience” allowing to get to know French culture and taste world-renowned French cuisine, while studying abroad. […]
The Bank of Lithuania has issued into circulation a 5 euro collector’s coin, dedicated to literature (from the series Lithuanian Culture); it was presented at the Writer’s Club in Vilnius to a group of writers and lovers of literature, the central bank said. […]
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