Last Saturday, 10 January, the 24th international run, the Road of Life and Death, dedicated to commemorate defenders of Lithuania’s freedom, took place in Lithuania, Belgium and Ireland. Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also took part in the event. […]
When an e-mail from Vilnius came with an invitation to join the traditional annual run “On the Road of Life and Death”, we were listening to Brahms’ piano concerto in Portland performed by a student of the prestigious Rice University in Houston (Texas), Lithuanian pianist Rūta Kuzmickaitė who was born five years after the historic events of 13 January 1991. She had returned for holidays to her family in Oregon. […]
On Sunday afternoon, several thousand people turned up in Washington for a silent march organised by the French Embassy. The march was held on the same day as millions joined the leaders of dozens of countries in Paris. In Washington, the ambassadors from several countries together with dignitaries, religious leaders and thousands of concerned citizens joined the French Ambassador to the USA, Gérard Araud. The participants gathered in front of the Newseum in Washington, a museum dedicated to the press and freedom of expression. […]
On Wednesday, 7 January, Lithuania’s entry into the eurozone was a cause for celebration in the US capital. During a very well attended ceremony at the EU Delegation Lithuania was fêted as the 19th euro area member. […]
On Monday, 5 January, the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington received the visit of three young amputees, victims of the 2010 Haitian earthquake. The young man came to make a visa application for a visit to Vilnius on 8 January. The three will then travel to Rome, Italy, where they will attend a conference at the Vatican. […]
The ceremony of the Global Lithuanian Awards 2014 took place on 30 December. The Lifetime Achievement Award of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was given to the American Lithuanian organization Lithuanian Children’s Hope, its long-time head Grazina Liautaud and President of the Los Angeles Lithuanian Children’s Hope department Danguole Navickiene. The award was given for consistent support for Vilnius University Children’s Hospital and for nurturing the philanthropic tradition, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated the laureates of this year’s Global Lithuanian Awards, the presidential press service said. […]
British journalist and writer Edward Lucas has urged the West to “wake up” in its response to Russia‘s actions, calling upon Lithuanian expats to help their country in the information warfare. […]
Danelė Vidutienė, chair of the US-Lithuanian Community Public Affairs Council, Asta Banionytė, member of the Council and former Capitol Hill staffer, and representatives of the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) met with US Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH). […]
Representatives of the World Lithuanian Youth Association (PLJS) met with Minister of Justice Juozas Bernatonis and expressed their support for the ideas of electronic voting and e-residents. […]
On Monday, 22 December, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius received representatives of the World Lithuanian Youth Association (PLJS). The prime minister together with Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas answered questions of the participants of the meeting and discussed issues like defence funding, the search for new markets and the Lithuanian Innovation Development Programme for 2014-2020. […]
The Lithuanian Community in Australia welcomes everyone in the Bankstown Community and beyond to attend our Lithuanian Sports and Cultural Festival to be held from 26/12/14 – 31/12/14 in Bankstown. The theme being “Ten mūsų tėvynė, čia mūsų namai” translated means “That is our Homeland, this is our Home”. […]
More than 619,000 Lithuanians live abroad, show statistical data published by the Lithuanian Statistics Department on Friday. One in five of the expatriates live in the United Kingdom. […]
A Migration Information Centre will be established in Lithuania next year and it will provide information to repatriates, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday morning. […]
Philadelphia can lay claim to a few superlatives in art. Probably nowhere are so many paintings by Renoir and sculptures by Jacques Lipchitz on public display within less than 1 square mile but in Philadelphia. Both have a connection to France and Lipchitz life story even leads all the way to Druskininkai in Lithuania. […]
Set up by Lithuanian expatriates 60 years ago, the Headley Park Hotel Sodyba in Hampshire, not far from London, has been recently taken over for debts and closed and will be sold, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reports. […]
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