Society
PM sees no need for Lithuania to review its stance on Lithuanians’ role in Holocaust
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that Lithuania does not need to review its attitude toward Lithuanians’ role during the Holocaust. […]
Society
Society
Lithuanian Jewish Community dissociates itself from allegations against partisan leader
The Lithuanian Jewish Community (LJC) has dissociated itself from publicly made allegations that Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, a Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander, was possibly involved in Holocaust crimes. […]
Society
MP suggests instructing local intl schools to teach Lithuanian history, geography
International schools of general education operating in Lithuania should teach students Lithuanian history, geography and citizenship, says Eugenijus Jovaiša, chairman of the parliamentary Education and Science Committee. […]
Society
Vilnius’ Protestants celebrate 500 years of Reformation
On Tuesday the 31st of October at 19:00. A concert was performed by choirs, singers, and musicians. It was the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation (1517). […]
Society
Society
Lithuania police nab 17 kg of drugs in car with Russian plates
Police in the southwestern Lithuanian county of Marijampolė said on Tuesday they have detained 17 kilograms of drugs with an estimated street value of half a million euros hidden in a car with Russian plates. […]
Society
Lithuanian ministry unveils university network reorganization plan
The Lithuanian Education and Science Ministry has unveiled a university network reorganization plan that calls for merging all universities in the country’s second-biggest city of Kaunas and dividing the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (LEU) between Vilnius University (VU) and Vytautas Magnus University (VDU). […]
Society
Lithuanian court convicts man for public approval of Soviet crimes
A Vilnius court on Monday imposed restriction of freedom for Jurijus Subotinas, resident of the country’s eastern city of Visaginas, for publishing a comment that expressed support to Soviet deportations. […]
Opinion
Vanagaitė confesses about her new relationship: her new significant other is the well-known Nazi hunter E. Zuroff
Rūta Vanagaitė was accompanied by Efraim Zuroff to the signing of her autobiography Višta Strimelės Galva on Thursday evening in Vilnius. R. Vanagaitė admitted to DELFI her one year long relationship with the Simon Wiesenthal centre’s director and so-called angriest nazi hunter E. Zuroff. […]
Society
CNS awards Lithuanian Professor for paradigm shift in neurology
The paper based on the study undertaken by the team of Lithuanian researchers was bestowed Paper of the Year award by The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), USA. The paper “Association of Severe TBI Patients’ Outcomes with Duration of Cerebrovascular Autoregulation Impairment Events” was awarded in Neurotrauma & Critical Care section. Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Professor Arminas Ragauskas was granted the award during the annual meeting of the Congress in Boston. […]
Society
The Zero Road Fatalities challenge for Lithuania
Lithuania has come a long way from being one of the most hazardous road environments in the EU. Road fatalities have decreased substantially over the last 10 years. However, there is still a lot of room for improvement. Education and enforcement contribute to overall safety. The main factors to achieve safe roads are road design and reshaping human behaviour. Particularly speed, alcohol and risky driving styles contribute to road fatalities, no surprises. […]
Society
Art and the city – opening a World to the deaf and blind in Vilnius
A group of young people going on an art discovery trip through Vilnius on a rainy October day. Perhaps a regular sight in Lithuania’s capital, but this was one with a difference. “Art in my town”, was for deaf and blind people, a group all too often marginalised in society. […]
Society
Fear of relationships
Time after time you feel desperate to get into a relationship and to commit to some imaginary partner. But as soon as the possibility to get into a relationship is right in front of you, you are doing your best to avoid it. Why? The answer is simple, you have a fear of relationships. It may take many forms, but it always ends this way, at the very last moment you refuse the possibility of dating someone. Let’s with Natasha single dating have a look why sometimes we are afraid to get into relationships. […]
Society
Lithuanian police launch 41 online child pornography probes
Lithuanian police launched 41 investigations into the distribution of child pornography on the Internet as part of an operation carried out in October. […]
Society
Chief prosecutor notes rising number of missing children
Although the official statistics does not reflect the actual number of children missing in Lithuania, Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis notes an increasing the number of long-term missing cases that could be linked with human trafficking or sexual or criminal abuse. […]
Society
Lithuanian court merges two January 13 coup trials
A Vilnius court on Wednesday decided to merge two cases of the January 13 trial into one – criminal charges against two former Soviet officers will be added to the big case heard for almost two years. […]
Society
Government to discuss contracts of joint operations for cohabitants
Lithuania’s government will Wednesday discuss the possibility for persons living in cohabitation to regulate their relationship by contracts of joint operations. […]
Society
How to act to attract girls?
You may not automatically become a dating loser if you don’t know how to attract a girl, but the lack of this knowledge will definitely make you suffer. Most of the problems that arise between men and women lies in the fact that the former rarely know how to attract girls. How else can you explain that huge number of articles about things girls find attractive floating all over the internet? While knowing what girls like can be useful, but the fact that each girl should be treated individually makes it really doubtful that you can know them for sure. One likes romantic movies, while another one hates them. So, the best is to know how to be attractive to girls, which we and pretty ladies online site going to check out. […]
History
Smoking in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Tobacco (Latin: nicotiana tabacum) was first brought in Europe shortly after the discovery of the Americas but it was not until the second half of the 16th century that tobacco consumption became popular. […]
Society
Pedestrian traffic restricted at foot of Gediminas Hill in central Vilnius
After a call from the Lithuanian National Museum to take additional security measures at the foot of the Gediminas Hill, the Vilnius municipality on Saturday imposed restrictions on pedestrian and bicycle traffic at the southeastern slope of the hill. […]