Society

IKEA 75 collection
Society

Lithuanian youth returns to furniture of their parents and grandparents

August 3, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

Every second Lithuanian has warm feelings about pieces of furniture and interior from the previous century. This is more an object of admiration for the younger audience who turns their looks to the times of parents and grandparents. The study carried out at the IKEA Lithuania request reveals that at least one piece of furniture or interior element from last decades can be found in two out of three Lithuanian homes. To celebrate the 75th anniversary, IKEA launched a limited furniture collection of legendary products from the past. […]

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. […]

Mission Siberia 2018 back to Lithuania
Society

Participants of Mission Siberia’18 return to Lithuania from Kazakhstan

July 30, 2018 BNS 0

Participants of Lithuania’s 17th Mission Siberia expedition returned to Lithuania from Kazakhstan on Sunday. […]

Grand Duchy of Lithuania
History

Black people in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

July 30, 2018 Raimonda Ragauskiene 0

Africa, the geographical term that emerged in the ancient world, refers to one of the three oldest continents, together with Europe and Asia, as far as the human knowledge is concerned. European countries, however, viewed and treated the continent of Africa and its inhabitants differently. […]

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. […]