Vilnius selects best concept for monument to national revival leader Basanavičius
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Vilnius selects best concept for monument to national revival leader Basanavičius

Vilnius’ local authority has selected the best concept for a monument to Jonas Basanavičius, one of the most prominent pioneers of the Lithuanian national revival movement of the late 19th century, that is planned to be erected in the capital’s Old Town. […]

Prof Virginijus Šikšnys
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Novozymes Prize goes to Šikšnys and Charpentier

The 2017 Novozymes Prize is being awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany, and Virginijus Šikšnys, Professor and Head of the Department of Protein–Nucleic acids Interactions at the Institute of Biotechnology of Vilnius University in Lithuania, the University of Vilnius announced. […]

The January 13 case
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January 13 coup victims to be offered free legal aid

Free legal assistance will be offered to victims of the January 13 1991 attempted coup in the case of compensation of damages, Lithuania’s Justice Ministry said. […]

Vytautas the Great
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Lithuania sounded like some country out of an American soap opera – historian Rowell

“For the Western reader who has no background knowledge all that seems to be happening is that crazy Belarusians arguing with crazy Lithuanians. The reader sees no difference between the two. . There’s no point in arguing with ‘idiots’ but you can still make your point known without getting angry. In Lithuania they do say however that there are lots of truths and that’s nonsense. The truth is one thing but there are lots of opinions” – that’s what Lithuanian Institute of History scholar Dr. Stephen Rowell says. He together with his colleague Dr. Darius Baronas are were awarded the 2016 Lithuanian Science Prize for their monograph “Lithuania’s Transformation: Pagan Barbarians become Christians of the Late Middle Ages” which has been published in English. […]