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Written documents in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania oral culture

September 5, 2017 Rimvydas Petrauskas 0

Pre-Christian Lithuania was a land of oral culture. Peter of Dusburg, the chronicler of the German Order, retold an ironic joke in the early 14th century about the pagans gazing at written characters for the first time: “[Prussians] did not use writing /…/ They were completely amazed to find out that a human was able to convey his wishes to another person, who was not here, through writing.” If we leave the theories about “Lithuanian runes” aside as legends, we can safely assume that Lithuanians did not use writing for communication between themselves until the late 14th century. […]

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Journeys of diplomatic missions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to Moscow at the end of the 15th – the 16th centuries

September 4, 2017 Marius Sirutavicius 0

After the State of Moscow, which grew into the Russian Empire in later ages, became the centre of Slavic statehood, Lithuania acquired a fierce rival with whom more than once it had to fight both on the battlefield and with the help of diplomatic measures. In the 15th -16th centuries, tension between the states determined not only the problems of foreign policy but also diplomatic contacts. […]

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Polish TV channels to be broadcast in southeastern Lithuania to offset Russian propaganda

September 4, 2017 BNS EN 0

In an effort to counterbalance Russian propaganda, three Polish television channels will be made available to viewers in Lithuania’s southeastern districts with large ethnic Polish communities. […]

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The Commonwealth Educational Commission: a new approach to teachers and education

September 1, 2017 Eligijus Raila 0

Pope Clement XVI’s decree pronouncing the closure of the Jesuit Order reached the Lithuanian and Polish Commonwealth in 1773. Jesuits financed a number of schools in Lithuania and Poland, including the Academy of Vilnius. The state faced the tasks of making use of the huge wealth of the Order and of finding new supervisors of the schools or, in other words, of solving problems in the area of education. […]

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Lithuanian robot to address Future of Life Seminar

August 31, 2017 Ludo Segers 0

Nao, a friendly looking robot from Lithuania’s Robotikos Akademija, will be the guest of honour at the Future of Life Seminar on the occasion of the European Business Network 10th anniversary event. The seminar will take place in Vilnius’ Kempinski Hotel on 21 September. In addition to the robot, some of Lithuania’s leading scientist will explain how progress in science and technology will affect our daily lives in the near future. […]

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Alfonso Salmerón, the First Jesuit in Vilnius

August 31, 2017 Dainora Pociute 0

The Spaniard Alfonso Salmerón (1515–1585) was one of the closest companions of Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, and he played an active role in the affairs of the order in its early life in Paris and later in Italy. Salmerón and Loyola met at the Sorbonne in 1536, where they were studying theology. Not long afterwards, with a few other friends, they founded the Society of Jesus. […]

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Vilnius approves EUR 1 mln for basketball, football clubs

August 30, 2017 BNS EN 0

The City Council of Vilnius decided on Wednesday to allocate 500,000 euros to the Lietuvos Rytas basketball club and the Žalgiris football club each. […]

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The Chmelnitsky Uprising and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

August 30, 2017 Elmantas Meilus 0

In early 1648, a Cossack uprising led by Bogdan Chmelnitsky broke out in Polish-ruled Ukraine, which the country’s leaders did little to suppress. As was usual in the first half of the 17th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania did not keep a standing army, only garrison units in Smolensk and Daugpilis. Whenever the threat of war loomed, it had to form a new army from scratch each time, so the private armies of the nobles were always the first to go into war, and were only later joined by conscripts. […]

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U. Kasera on the celebration of the 70th anniversary of India’s independence in Vilnius

August 29, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

An exceptional reception commemorating India’s 70th Anniversary of Independence took place in Vilnius, Lithuania on 17th of August in Vaidila theatre. Among the attendees of the festive reception, there were Ministers, Diplomats, business elites from Lithuania and India, famous artists and public figures. Ambassador of India to Lithuania Ajay Bisaria, Wing Commander (Retired) Rajinder Kumar Chaudhary, Honorary Consul of India to Lithuania and Minister of Education and Science Jurgita Petrauskienė gave the opening speeches. A Rich cultural program was presented during the solemn event including fashion shows of traditional wedding dresses by Indian designers “Silver Tulip” and internationally acclaimed fashion brand “Shantanu & Nikhil” that in the year 2016 won the “Best Designer” of the year award in “GQ India Awards”. […]

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Lithuania ranks 12th in EU on education spending level

August 28, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania spends a higher proportion of its GDP on education than the EU average, ranking 12th among all 28 member states, according to the latest Eurostat figures released on Monday. […]