Society

Baltic Summer University party Photo Sigita Jakubsonė (14)
Society

Summer courses at Vytautas Magnus University attended by students from over 30 countries

August 2, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

For the second time in a row, Baltic Summer University (BSU), a project organized by Vytautas Magnus University, has drawn to Kaunas over 100 students from various countries around the world. Students from Europe and other continents have joined the project: the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Japan, Indonesia. The participants were offered a variety of courses in which the guests can improve their professional skills, learn the Lithuanian language, discover other cultures, and establish new contacts. […]

Trevellers
LIGHT

Habits of Lithuanian holiday-makers: increasing numbers of single travellers but parents the least common companions

August 2, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

This year, significantly more Lithuanian residents chose to travel on holiday both as single travellers or setting off with their family members. A survey conducted showed that more than half of Lithuanian residents spend their holidays with their spouses, one third holiday with their children, while parents are seldom selected as holiday companions. […]

Jan Casimir Vasa
History

Liberum veto – theory and practice

August 1, 2018 Mindaugas Sapoka 0

Liberum veto (Latin for “the free veto”) is what the right of every nobleman not to permit adopting laws at the Sejm was called in the Commonwealth of the Two Nations. This right formed intensively after the Union of Lublin. But in the times of Sigismund Vasa (1587–1632) many decisions were taken unanimously. Why? […]

Florence
Global LT

Italian Lithuanian A. Kriščiūnaitė-Dantoni: There is still a Soviet Union Street in Florence

July 31, 2018 Media Briefing 0

Asta Kriščiūnaitė-Dantoni , Tuscany Lithuanian community founder and chairman of the board, recently told the LRT.lt news outlet that Italians tend to believe disinformation. “They have it in their heads that we speak Russian and don’t know our country’s history,“ she said. She’s happy to be working hard to change these misconceptions, lrt.lt writes. […]

Romani people
History

Roma, the vagabonds of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

July 31, 2018 Jonas Drungilas 0

Gypsies originated in Indian Peninsula and left their native lands in the Middle Ages after choosing nomadic way of life. In the 15th century, their traces are already evident in Central Europe and it is likely that they reached the territory of Lithuania at about the same time. It is thought that the Great Duke of Lithuania Aleksandras granted Gypsies the privilege in 1501 allowing them to roam all over the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Moving from one place to another they would earn they daily bread through the trade of wizardry and, forced by deprivation and poverty, eventually got involved in the inglorious “craft”, stealing. This is why the image of Gypsies in Lithuania has gradually diminished to persons involved in magic and horse stealing. […]

No Picture
Society

Google Street View cars are hitting Lithuanian roads again

July 30, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

This summer, Google Street View cars will be cruising Lithuania once again with the goal of updating local data in Google Maps. This time, Street View cars will be focusing on getting more up to date information on interconnecting roads between cities, a press release from Google states. […]

World Lithuanian Community management, 2018
Global LT

Lithuanian World Community elects new chairperson and management

July 27, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

The XVI Lithuanian World Community (PLB) Seimas has elected Dalia Henke for a second term as its chairwoman. The new management will be comprised of Lithuanian community representatives from three continents, according to a press release from the PLB. […]

Letters on the stones
Global LT

A Lithuanian living in Alaska won the surname with “w”

July 27, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

On July 25th 2018 The Vilnius District Court passed yet another verdict on the original spelling case of names and surnames. This time, for a Lithuanian who married a citizen of the United States of America and took a surname with a “w”. A citizen of Lithuania, who lives in Alaska, reached out to the European Foundation of Human Rights (EFHR), which led up more than forty cases in this matter. For several years now in the US, the applicant is identified by the surname of her spouse that contains the letter “w” – she has driver’s license, has signed several contracts with it etc., but Lithuania refused to register her surname, a press release from the foundation states. […]

Remnants of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius
Society

Vilnius plans to commemorate Great Synagogue by 2023 after important discovery

July 26, 2018 BNS 0

Archeologists have found one of the most important parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, the bimah – a raised central platform for Torah readings, the Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Thursday. […]