LaMelo, LiAngelo and LaVar Ball
Society

Hour of the star for Prienai: Basketball club welcomes US celebrities

Prienai, a city in southern Lithuania, is living the hour of the star – it has become the Lithuanian city with most mentions in international media after a local basketball club signed a contract with US celebrities. […]

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History

Education and patriotic upbringing for women in the Age of Enlightenment

Women of the early modern period, even those from the privileged estates, could not enjoy full civil rights in their countries. Their activity was very often limited by the private space of her house and a woman was seen as a wife, mother and a housewife. Simultaneously, the modern period signified the beginning of core changes as the ideas of the day, particularly in relation to women’s position in the society, resonated throughout Europe, down to the farthermost corners of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. […]

Supreme Court of Lithuania
Society

Lithuania’s Supreme Court upholds 9-yr jail term for judge’s daughter for infant murder

Lithuania’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the verdict for Jurga Mataitytė who has been sentenced to nine years in prison for murdering her infant. […]

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Global LT

Forum of Lithuanian Professional Diaspora: turning ideas into actions

On the 28th December, sixth year in a row, Global Lithuanian Awards will convene the international Lithuanian research, art and business professionals returning for winter holidays from more than 20 countries. The event is organized by Global Lithuanian Leaders (GLL), network of professional Lithuanian diaspora. Its patron is the president of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė, who will award the Laureates. […]

European Humanities University graduation in Vilnius 2016
Society

Vilnius-based European Humanities University gets negative assessment

The Vilnius-based European Humanities University (EHU), whose students are mostly from Belarus, has received a negative assessment from the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education, or SKVC. […]

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History

Scouts and guides in medieval Lithuania

Life in the Baltic lands in the middle ages was full of dangers. In the 13th century, the old rivalries between the local tribes were accompanied by fights against the Knights of the Cross, and the Knights of the Sword. By comparing the art of warfare practised by local tribes and alien Germans, one can notice considerable differences in technical issues, such as weaponry, fortifications, and strategies, as well as in warfare customs. In this respect, the Livonian Chronicle by Henry of Latvia is particularly telling. While Germans and other western Christians would adhere to the knightly rules of war in Livonia, local Baltic and Finno-Ugric peoples acted very much like the barbarians did during the times of the Great Migration of the Nations. […]

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History

Suicide in pagan Lithuania

The romantic attitude towards the pagan Lithuania, shaped in the 19th century, remains tenacious up to these days. Romantic authors, such as Teodor Narbutt and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski who wrote in Polish, saw the old Lithuania as a fairy tale country with an ideal state order and virtuous inhabitants. They were confident that the Lithuanian history of the 13th and 14h century was a period of “golden times”. This kind of standpoint made an essential impact on the leading figures of the Lithuanian national resurgence in the second half of the 19th century. They employed the visions of the pagan glory to wake the nation up considering the majority of people immature for high nationalist aspirations. […]

Lithuanian National Drama Theater
Society

Lithuania’s theatre figures ask for asylum for Afghan actor

The crew of the Dreamland play of the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre have turned to the country’s top officials with a request to help Afghan national Zabi Ahmadi performing in the play to receive asylum in Lithuania. […]