Couples, including gays and lesbians, will be “married” by a humanoid robot in a mock ceremony planned to be staged outside the Lithuanian government’s building in Vilnius on St. Valentine’s Day. […]
The noble estate enjoyed the most important position in the social hierarchy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The nobility, however, was far from homogenous. It consisted of aristocrats, (the magnates), as well as of middling and petty nobles who owned little or no land at all respectively. The importance and financial might of noble families and even particular individuals was constantly fluctuating. Many families went through a process of ascent and subsequent slide down or even oblivion. A considerable number of the noblemen were utterly poor. They sometimes could hardly afford their daily meals yet they still enjoyed all the privileges of the estate. Some of them – mostly vagabonds – would eventually cross the line and lose their symbols of the nobility. They would live on accidental income, sometimes illegal, and would very often end up in prisons or on the scaffold. Surviving interrogation documents reveal the paths that led them into the world of crime. What kind of life was it? […]
Vilnius and Panevėžys will Friday pay tribute to the memory of victims of the Holocaust, with events for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day held in other cities of Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s acting commission for scrutiny of the national broadcaster‘s operations decided at its first meeting on Thursday to turn to 14 institutions for information about LRT, asking the government to earmark money and call a tender for LRT’s external audit. […]
A Vilnius court on Wednesday sentenced Eric Georgoulakos, an American national, to three years and a half in prison for raping a young woman, the Prosecutor General’s Office said. […]
Heritage officials and members of Lithuania’s Jewish community note that an increasing number of municipalities are taking the initiative to clean and maintain uncared-for Jewish cemeteries and memorial sites, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Thursday. […]
Two Lithuanians and a Colombian on Wednesday were found guilty in one of Lithuania’s largest-ever drug smuggling cases and were handed down prison sentences of up to nine years. […]
After the Deluge that devastated the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the middle of the 17th century, a family appeared along the Radvila and Sapieha clans at the top of the government that had a nice short name that you will soon find out that had Roman origins. The family came from the town of Rozhanka in the environs of Grodno. […]
The pace of emigration from Lithuania should start declining this year, with the number of returning Lithuanians and arriving foreigners should remain stable, says Swedbank analyst Nerijus Mačiulis, adding that the net emigration should hit the lowest level since 2000. […]
Between the beginning of the 16th century and the middle of the 17th century, there were about 800 functioning towns and cities in the GDL that had the traits of city-like settlements, however only a small number of them had rights to self-rule. During the following 400 years after the establishment of the first self-governing city, Vilnius, in 1387, up until 1795, it is estimated that there were approximately 250 self-ruling cities that had the kind of Magdeburg rights generally given in the GDL. The Magdeburg rights were the primary legal act that set a city apart from other settlements that did not have privileges issued to them. One of these cities was Biržai, which during the existence of the GDL belonged to the Radvila family, who were the dukes of Biržai and Dubingai and one of the most powerful noble families in the GDL. It was their private city. […]
Lithuania’s crime rate last year increased by 5,000, with the rise attributed to the introduction of criminal liability for drinking and driving, Police Commissioner General Linas Pernavas says. […]
A suspected leader of an international drug trafficking group was detained in Lithuania last week, the Customs Criminal Service said on Tuesday. […]
A fight broke out between two Lithuanian volunteer soldiers at the US Army’s military base in Hohenfels, in Germany, on Sunday morning, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said on Monday. […]
Alma Adamkienė, wife of Lithuania’s former president Valdas Adamkus, is currently in hospital but her condition is not serious, said doctor Aušra Marcijonienė. […]
Vladislavas Švedas, one of the former Communist leaders in Lithuania and a defendant in the January 13 case of attempted coup, has told a court he was declining the lawyer he had been appointed for the case, citing indignation over the lawyer’s public statements about the 1991 events mentioned in the case. […]
A solemn ceremony was held in the House of Signatories in Old Town Vilnius on Sunday to inaugurate the exhibition of the February 16 1918 Independence Act brought to Lithuania from Germany. […]
The Urbutis brothers, owners and top executives of Naftos Grupė (Oil Group), an oil product forwarding company that was granted exceptional terms for the transshipment of oil products via Klaipėdos Nafta (Klaipėda Oil) in 2005 to 2010, have filed appeals against the ruling by a Klaipeda court to sentence them to terms in prison. […]
A Lithuanian man jumped off a ferry en route from Latvia to Sweden in the Gulf of Riga, Latvia’s Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre confirmed to BNS. […]
Frederik August I (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony, became the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania (1697-1733) on June 27th, 1697. During the coronation, the new ruler took the name of Augustus II, but often was called the Strong due to his unusual physical strength. Saxony was one of the most economically developed states in Europe at the end of the 17th century. Entering into a personal union with Saxony, the Commonwealth had better prospects in international politics than many surrounding nations. The new leader, having his own state, could hope that he would be able to rule the boyars of the Commonwealth. […]
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