Lithuania

Immigration to Lithuania increases: who are the immigrants?

Immigration to Lithuania in growing for the fourth month in a row now: more people arrive in Lithuania than leave it. This is to celebrate, but at the same time saddening because only a little […]

Erin Gainer Grigaliūnė
Lithuania

Women in Lithuania are praised but not valued

Women in Lithuania currently do not hold a single cabinet post, their salaries are over 15% less than men’s, and the gender equality index is below the European Union average. That situation would resolve itself […]

Facebook
Lithuania

Facebook and Lithuanians: not a day without it

Facebook and Lithuanians have a very strong bond. Facebook, Messenger and e-mail are apps, which most Lithuanians could not go a day without. More well-known names, such as YouTube, Instagram, Viber, Google Maps, WhatsApp and […]

Map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
History

Cartography of a private domain: the 1645 map of the Duchy of Biržai

European cartography experienced a considerable rise in the 16th and the first half of the 17th century when maps became a practical necessity. Their importance rose in Lithuania too as people required more precise pictures of different localities due to intensifying economic ties with Europe, military conflicts and local land and administrative reforms. This is how the view of southern Lithuania emerged in 1559 according to the description of forests by Grigalius Valavičius. […]

Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius
Society

Lithuanian capital elects first openly gay politician to city council

Last weekend, the Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius elected the first openly gay politician to its city council. Human rights activist Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius has become the first proudly open gay person to be elected to the political office in Lithuania. The candidate was running on the list of the current liberal mayor Remigijus Šimašius, who has made headlines by stating that “Vilnius is LGBT-friendly city.” […]