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Lithuanian truck driver manages to jump out before train crash in Italy
A Lithuanian driver managed to jump out of his truck before a train crashed into it in northern Italy. […]
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Lithuania registered truck in train collision in Italy, two dead
Near the city of Turin in Northern Italy, two died and eighteen were wounded in a derailment on Thursday night, which was caused by the train colliding with a truck. […]
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Vilnius Municipality to become patron of Russian cultural festival
Vilnius Municipality well be the patron of a festival of Russian culture that will place in Vilnius in June. […]
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KGB documents on Sąjūdis published in Lithuania
The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania has published KGB documents on Lithuania’s reform movement Sąjūdis on www.kgbveikla.lt, as the movement’s 30th anniversary approaches. […]
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Lithuanian president to confer state award on Litvak painter Samuel Bak
President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Tuesday confer the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania on internationally-renowned Litvak painter Samuel Bak. […]
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Lithuanian commission clears Banionis, Sondeckis of KGB collaboration allegations
There are no grounds to say that actor Donatas Banionis and conductor Saulius Sondeckis collaborated with the KGB, the Lithuanian Lustration Commission has stated. […]
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Teachers stage warning strike
Teachers from around 50 schools in Lithuania are taking part in a two-hour warning strike on Friday. […]
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EUR 300 fine proposed for wearing St. George’s ribbons in Lithuania
A fine of up to 300 euros is proposed for wearing Russian St. George’s ribbons with black and orange stripes in Lithuania. […]
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History
The 1655 Union of Kėdainiai: from Poland to Sweden
Because of Moscow’s aggression against the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth that started in 1654, when the aggressor obtained considerable achievements and successfully continued its marches the following year, Sweden also decided to cut off a slice of the spoils from the collapsing state. In the summer of 1655, Swedish Armies invaded Poland from the West and threatened to invade Lithuania from the North. […]
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Lithuania rises in “rainbow index”, lags EU countries in terms of gay rights
Lithuania has scored better in a survey on LGBT rights this year but still lags behind many European Union countries. […]
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Seimas starts discussion on merging Vilnius, Šiauliai universities
The Seimas of Lithuania is starting discussions on merging Vilnius University and Šiauliai University, northern Lithuania. […]
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Lithuanian teachers to stage warning strike
Teachers in Lithuania will stage a warning strike on Friday, with around 1,000 teachers from 50 educational institutions set to joint the protest, Andrius Navickas, chairman of the Lithuanian Education Employees Trade Union, initiating the strike, says. […]
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High profile ceremony for the forthcoming museum in Lithuania
On May 4, 2018 the ground-breaking ceremony for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex took place in the middle of Lithuania, in Šeduva. The project is designed by professor Rainer Mahlamäki and Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, Finland. Professor Mahlamäki attended the ceremony, as well as Dr Inna Rogatchi, the author of the forthcoming film and book on Rainer Mahlamäki’s projects of memorial architecture. […]
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Prosecutors ask for life sentence for former Soviet Defense Minister Yazov (Updated)
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office asks a court to find former Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov guilty of crimes against humanity during the bloody events of Jan. 13, 1991 in Vilnius and hand him a life sentence. […]
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EHU wants to be more integrated in Lithuanian academic community – rector
The Vilnius-based European Humanities University (EHU), whose students are mostly from Belarus, expects to solve its problems through closer links with Lithuania’s academic community, its rector said on Monday. […]
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Lithuania’s former govt chancellor Dargužaitė appointed CEO of Northern Horizon
Milda Dargužaitė, a former chancellor of the Lithuanian government, has been appointed as CEO of Denmark’s investment company Northern Horizon. […]
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Lithuanian prosecutors demand jail sentences, EUR 11.3 mln damages in 1991 crackdown trial
Defendants in a mass trial related to the bloody events of Jan. 13, 1991 in Vilnius must be given severe prison sentences and pay over 11.3 million euros in damages in a civil lawsuit, public prosecutors from the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Monday. […]