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“Room Service? – Send up a bigger room”

The Shakespeare Hotel in Vilnius started me thinking. Not because of its name, or its book-lined ‘library room’, or even the fact of its proximity to Vilnius University, where I was currently working. The Shakespeare and the Kempinsky in University Street are my two Lithuanian favourites, not least because of the latter’s Tappa snacks. Seared Escalope of Foie Gras and Beluga Lentils, need I say more? […]

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Lithuania asks Russia to extradite suspect charged with multiple murders and other crimes

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office has turned to Russian prosecutors, asking to extradite Romas Zamolskis, a suspect in a number of crimes committed in Lithuania. Zamolskis was recently detained in Yekaterinburg. […]

Rachil Kostanian - one of the founders of the Museum and the Holocaust Exhibition welcomes all guests and shares her memories about Dmitri Gelpern
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“He was like a captain of a ship,” Kaunas ghetto resistance leader commemorated at Holocaust Exhibit

The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum Holocaust Exhibit, housed in a traditional wooden green house on Pamėnkalnio gatvė, commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Kaunas ghetto on 30 September. The commemoration was scheduled to coincide with the centennial of the birth of the museum’s co-founder and Kaunas ghetto leader, Dmitrijus Gelpernas. […]

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100 protesters in Vilnius demand higher pensions

One hundred members of the Lithuanian Pensioner Party gathered outside the government building in Vilnius before noon on Wednesday to demand higher pensions. […]

Anatoli Mikhailov
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Anatoli Mikhailov appointed president of EHU

After more than two decades of service, the Founding Rector of the European Humanities University (EHU) Professor Anatoli Mikhailov has accepted the newly-created position of President of the University. […]

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Vilnius commemorates founding day

September 28 is taken as the day of the founding of Vilnius, the present capital of Lithuania. The founder of the city was Grand Duke Gediminas who ruled Lithuania in the 14th century and mentioned the city as his ducal seat in letters dated 1323. The legend says that Gediminas founded the city on the confluence of the rivers Neris and Vilnelė after he had a dream about a howling iron wolf – which represented the great history that was waiting for Vilnius. […]

Vladimir Simonko of the Lithuanian Gay League
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Council of Europe criticizes Lithuania over failure to address sex change

The Council of Europe has warned Lithuania over its failure to adopt laws that would allow sex change surgeries. […]