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Swedish royal couple in 1992. Photo Vidas Naujikas

Swedish royal couple to visit Vilnius University during Lithuania visit

October 6, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Queen Silvia will visit Vilnius University (VU) on 7-8 October. […]

Lithuania among most rural EU countries

October 6, 2015 ELTA EN 0

In 2014, 47.6 percent of Lithuania’s population lived in rural areas, while 42.9 percent – in densely populated areas (cities). 9.6 percent of residents lived in intermediate area, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), said. This makes Lithuania the third most rural country in the EU. […]

24 percent of Lithuanians approve same-sex marriage

October 5, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Every fourth Lithuanian thinks that same-sex marriage should be legalized throughout the European Union, according to a Eurobarometer survey. This is well below the EU average, BNS reports. […]

Share of older people on the rise in Lithuania

October 2, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Statistics Lithuania has published demographic data on the occasion of the Day of Older Persons. It has transpired that the number of older people is on the rise in the country. […]

1 in 3 Lithuanians willing to help refugee resettlement, survey shows

September 30, 2015 BNS 0

One in three Lithuanians are willing to personally contribute to the resettlement of refugees, according to a survey carried out for the Civil Society Institute in mid-September. Meanwhile half of the population would do nothing. […]

100 protest in Vilnius against refugee resettlement

September 30, 2015 BNS 0

About 100 people gathered in Kudirkos Square near the Government building in central Vilnius on Tuesday evening to protest against resettlement of refugees from the Middle East and Africa in Lithuania. […]

Lithuanian minister assures Polish counterpart about ethnic minority education

September 28, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania has not passed any amendments to worsen the conditions for ethnic minorities to study in their native language, Lithuania’s Education and Science Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė has said in a letter to her Polish counterpart. […]

Syrian refugee: Doing business is hard in Lithuania

September 28, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Pierre Naoum sold his property in Syria and invested the money into a pizza restaurant that he opened in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he was granted asylum. […]

Lithuanian universities to offer free spots to refugees

September 25, 2015 BNS 0

Every university of Lithuania intends to enrol between several and a few dozen refugees, financing their tuition. […]

Lithuanian Tatars offer help with refugee integration

September 25, 2015 BNS 0

The Lithuanian Tatar community has offered to help the country’s government with the integration of refugees to be resettled in Lithuania. Lithuania’s Tatars also call on people not to be afraid of Muslims and not to identify them with extremist groups. […]

There will be no mosque in Vilnius, liberal mayor says

September 25, 2015 BNS 0

There are no plans to build a mosque in Vilnius as Lithuania prepares to take in Muslim refugees, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says. […]

UNHCR calls on Lithuania to set up meeting points for refugees and public

September 24, 2015 BNS 0

Karolina Lindholm Billing, deputy regional representative at the UNHCR Regional Representation for Northern Europe, has called on Lithuania to set up special meeting points for refugees and members of the public to promote a positive attitude to refugees in Lithuania. […]

Lithuania planning refugee integration centres in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda

September 23, 2015 BNS 0

Refugee integration centres will be opened in Lithuania’s largest cities of Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the Ministry of Welfare and Labour said. […]

Lithuanian woman married to Belgian refused passport with original spelling of last name

September 23, 2015 BNS 0

The Migration Board of Vilnius County Central Police Commissariat has refused to issue a passport with a letter w in the last name of a Lithuanian woman who married a Belgian and received a marriage certificate with the new last name. […]

Lithuanian school students to walk on Memory Road for Holocaust

September 23, 2015 BNS 0

Over 100 schools and other educational institutions in Lithuania will on Wednesday take part in the civil initiative Memory Road to commemorate the large Jewish communities annihilated during the Holocaust. […]

Lithuanian BBQ masters make 100-metre chicken shashlik

September 22, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 19 September in Vilnius, a new record was achieved, the longest chicken shashlik was baked during the 10th Open Lithuanian BBQ Championship. […]

Lithuania pays tribute to rescuers of Jews from Holocaust

September 22, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday awarded 47 people with Life Saving Crosses for saving Jews from the Nazis during World War Two. The majority of them were awarded posthumously. […]

Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance fighter stripped of state decoration due to involvement in Holocaust

September 22, 2015 BNS 0

After President Dalia Grybauskaitė changed a 2000 decree on state awards for Lithuania’s post-war anti-Soviet resistance fighters, one partisan, Pranas Končius-Adomas, was stripped of the Order of the Cross of Vytis, a decoration conferred on people who defended Lithuania’s freedom and independence. […]

Lithuanian president to award rescuers of Jews

September 22, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Tuesday, the eve of the National Memorial Day for the Genocide Victims of the Lithuanian Jews, award 47 people who saved Jewish people from the Nazis during World War Two. […]

Vilnius to host anti-suicide action

September 22, 2015 BNS 0

Vilnius will on Tuesday host a campaign initiated by Lithuanian actor Arūnas Sakaulauskas and his like-minds to attract people’s attention to the large number of suicides in Lithuania. […]