Lithuania’s leaders need to choose the way of legalizing dual citizenship and Lithuanians living abroad will support that decision, representatives of the Lithuanian World Community said on Friday. […]
World Lithuanians are calling on the Seimas and government to launch a campaign for a referendum to legalize multiple citizenship. […]
On 5 April, an exhibition will open in Brussels with a selection of photos by Ludo Segers, a regular contributor of The Lithuania Tribune. The exhibition, entitled “A Place, A Time, A Reason?” will feature images photographed in Lithuania and during Ludo’s travels around the world.
Observers describe Ludo’s photography as a cross between narrative documentary and fine art, noting a high level of awareness that is required in photojournalism punctuated with magical moments captured in between assignments. Some of those exquisite instants will be on display in Gallery 74 in Brussels. […]
In order to facilitate the transition of foreigners invited to live and work in Lithuania’s capital a new digital tool, which takes the form of a Relocation Guide, has been launched. Developed by Go Vilnius, the city’s official business and tourism development agency, the guide provides all the necessary information for successful and smooth relocation to Vilnius according to each person’s individual situation. […]
The National Executive Committee of the Lithuanian-American Community, Inc. has chosen Philadelphia as the host city for the 16th Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival in 2020. Called “Šokių Šventė” in Lithuanian, this event is held every four years to celebrate the unique traditions of the Lithuanian heritage. Beginning in 1957, these festivals provided a way for Lithuanian immigrants and Lithuanian-Americans to keep their heritage alive while the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania during the Cold War. Now that Lithuania is an independent nation, these festivals are an essential part of celebrating Lithuanian traditions. […]
A few bridges and other objects in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo will light up in the flag colours of yellow, green and red for Lithuania’s 100-year anniversary of independence. […]
The Los Angeles International Airport in the US will light up in the colors of the Lithuanian flag for the February 16 centennial anniversary of Lithuania’s statehood, the Foreign Ministry said. […]
Some 2.81 million people permanently resided in Lithuania in early 2018, which is a decline by 37,800 persons or 1.3 percent from the beginning of last year, Statistics Lithuania said on Tuesday, citing emigration as the main reason behind the decline of the population. […]
On Thursday, December 28, guests and laureates for the Global Lithuania Awards 2018 gathered at the Town Hall. With the now sixth year of these awards, international Lithuanians and Lithuania-related business, culture and science professionals, talents seeking to create a successful and acknowledged Lithuania on the global level were honoured. […]
On the 28th December, sixth year in a row, Global Lithuanian Awards will convene the international Lithuanian research, art and business professionals returning for winter holidays from more than 20 countries. The event is organized by Global Lithuanian Leaders (GLL), network of professional Lithuanian diaspora. Its patron is the president of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė, who will award the Laureates. […]
A monument to Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, a Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander, will be erected in the United States next year in commemoration of 100 years of his birth. […]
Lithuanian teachers who used to go to the Russian Kaliningrad region to teach the Lithuanian language there have lately been facing increasing obstacles and refused labour visas, a scheme Lithuania’s political scientists view as a way of pushing the Lithuanian spirit out of the enclave. […]
Since 2011, The Lithuanian Embassy in London along with other organisations have been running the Litvak days. Litvak Days is essentially a celebration and teaching of the impact of Lithuanian Jews on society, including subjects such as architecture, music, culture and arts in general. […]
Lithuania cannot invest in renovating the 18th century poet Kristijonas Donelaitis’ museum in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad until it receives guarantees from the neighbouring country that the intended use and owners of the renovated buildings will not be changed, Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson said on Wednesday. […]
Do you imagine where in America the Mindaugas Castle is located? Where is the place Darius and Girėnas took off from? Where you can find memorials for Lithuanian freedom fighters, Lithuanian art museums and a Lithuanian-themed guest house? […]
The annual charity ball, continuing a worthy tradition, took place on November 17 in London organised by the Lithuanian community in the United Kingdom, the members of which, together with British representatives from business, politics, the arts and culture, demonstrated their solidarity with those who need help in Lithuania. […]
Internationally-renowned Litvak painter Samuel Bak, back in Vilnius for the opening of his museum, on Wednesday expressed his gratitude to residents of his hometown who helped him survive the Holocaust. […]
Last Saturday, October 28th, The Lithuanian Club of Cleveland, Ohio, hosted the annual convention of the largest ex-pat Lithuanian sports amateur organization in North America- the Lithuanian Physical Education and Sport Union. Among many of the most relevant sports-related issues to overseas Lithuanians, the group discussed the success of the 67th annual Games in the Mississauga suburb of Toronto (Canada), Hamilton Challenges in Toronto, and the record-breaking success of the US-Canadian Lithuanian delegations participating in the anniversary Lithuanian World Sport Games in Kaunas this summer. […]
This is an extract from the book “We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. 18 Stories of Refugees 1940-1944” (compiled and edited by Dalia Stakė Anysas, Dalia Cidzikaitė and Laima Petrauskas VanderStoep, published by Aukso žuvys, 2017). The book is an impressive collection of reminiscences about emigration by Lithuanians to the West during World War II. The conversations with émigrés that are central to the book bring new knowledge about wartime reality and provide insight into the meanings of home and place, and the social impact of the geopolitical upheaval when the state’s sovereignty is annihilated. […]
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