Despite being one of Lithuania’s most prominent writers, winning an array of awards and selling more than a million copies of his novels in Russian, Grigory Kanovich is virtually unknown to English readers. […]
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. […]
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. […]
BAFL– Baltic American Freedom League, an L.A. based, national Baltic freedom preserving organization. BAFL President Valdis Pavlovskis, former Defense Minister of Latvia, led the group consisting of BAFL Vice-President Ivars Michols, Director and Editor of The Baltic Bulletin, Imants Leitis, and Director and Editor of The Baltic Caucus Update, Alexandra Kudukis, visited Washington D.C. September 25-29 2017 to inform and to educate our lawmakers on the most pressing issues pertaining to Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. […]
The Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom (LCCUK) is continuing its tradition of supporting vulnerable social groups and on 17 November 2017, together with the Embassy of Lithuania in the UK, is inviting Lithuanian and foreign guests to a Charity Ball supported by the former Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus. The event, hosted in the Lancaster Ballroom of the Savoy Hotel, one of London’s grandest and most glamorous settings, overlooking the river Thames, will be raising money for the Charitable Foundation of Vilnius University Children’s Hospital. […]
Aidas Ardzijauskas, a 46-year-old Lithuanian fire-and-rescue officer and ultra-distance runner, on Tuesday is starting an 8,000-kilometer run from Senegal’s capital of Dakar to Vilnius. […]
Lithuania cannot lower the minimum turnout threshold for a referendum on dual citizenship, but it can rally politicians and the public to ensure that such a plebiscite takes place, the chief advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday. […]
The Lithuanian Constitutional Court has removed doubts that referendum is the only way of allowing dual citizenship, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in comment of the Friday’s ruling. […]
Granting dual Lithuanian citizenship to a broader circle of individual sis only possible after changing the Constitution by way of a referendum, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday. […]
The existing provisions on dual citizenship limit the free movement of Lithuanian citizens in European Union (EU) countries, which bars full exercise of trans-Atlantic integration, conservative MP Žygimantas Pavilionis told the Constitutional Court on Tuesday. […]
If the Constitutional Court does not pave way for dual citizenship for Lithuanians who have left for other countries of the European Union (EU) and NATO, politicians will have the duty of holding a referendum on amendments to the country’s main law, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
A Lithuanian high school in the northeastern Polish town of Sejny is set to recover more than a million euros from the local authorities after the sides resolved a dispute that had lasted for years. […]
If you can find a sparrow, you will find a Lithuanian, an old saying goes. There are more than a million people of Lithuanian decent living outside of Lithuania, more than a half of this number in the USA alone.
Augustinas Žemaitis is a keen traveller who has been to more than 90 countries so far. In his numerous websites, he seeks not only to present Lithuania to foreigners and, but also to introduce Lithuanians to the countless traces of Lithuania that exist all over the world.
The Lithuania Tribune meet Augustinas to talk about it, before he is gone on the “Destination – America” journey, which will be his largest Lithuanian-locations-search journey so far, covering 11 states of the USA. […]
An awareness campaign will be launched in the United Kingdom, the country with the largest number of reported cases of Lithuanian nationals sold into slavery and abused, to educate local Lithuanians on human trafficking, the Lithuanian Interior Ministry said. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, jointly with Jurgis Didziulis‘ ToBeLT project, on Tuesday launched an initiative called Choose Lithuania. […]
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis promised that the Lithuanian government would provide greater support for ethnic Lithuanians living in Poland and other neighboring countries as he visited Punsk, a town in northeastern Poland, on Tuesday. […]
Members of the Lithuanian national minority living in Poland expect to voice their concerns to Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis over the education situation, such as a lack of Lithuanian-language textbooks in local schools and proposals that may restrict Lithuanian history and geography classes and support from Lithuania. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is going to the Polish city of Punsk next week to celebrate the Assumption Day with the local Lithuanian community. […]
Some members of the ruling political group of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and the Social Democratic Party on Tuesday proposed establishing the institute of the Lithuanian passport as an alternative to emigrants who do not have Lithuanian citizenship. […]
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