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

February 14, 2017 Media Briefing 0

“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. […]

Local authorities welcome plans to build Jewish museum in Šeduva

February 14, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

Local authorities in the northern Lithuanian district of Radviliškis on Monday welcomed plans to build a privately-financed state-of-the-art Jewish museum in Šeduva that will be dedicated to the life of Jews in small Lithuanian towns in the pre-Holocaust era. […]

JustMin bars Russia’s TV Channel from using Lithuanian name in title

February 13, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s Justice Ministry has banned the use of the Lithuanian name in titles of the Lietuvos Laikas and Litovskoye Vremia Lithuanian- and Russian-language broadcasts. […]

World class museum will open In Lithuania

February 13, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

International museum professionals and architects are working on Museum of Šeduva Jewish history, which will be using the most advanced technologies to tell its visitors about the history and culture of similar Litvak shtetls. […]

Archeologists guess finding guerrilla bodies on Gediminas Hill slope

February 10, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian archeologists discovered remains of four persons on the top of the Gediminas Hill in downtown Vilnius, guessing they could be the bodies of the participants of the 1863-1864 uprising. […]

Seimas not to rush with Natl Minority Law, name-spelling – Speaker

February 10, 2017 BNS EN 0

The National Minority Law and spelling of non-Lithuanian names in personal documents will not be rushed, as they are still subject to discussions and proposals, says Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]

Sartai Horse Race 2015 on the frozen Sartai lake

Understanding Lithuania

February 10, 2017 Richard Osborne 0

It is often said that to understand a culture you first need to understand the language. There’s definitely something in that but I’ll come back to that later. […]

Jewish property compensation funds used properly in 2016 – auditors

February 9, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian National Audit Office (NAO), which in previous years identified certain irregularities in the use of compensation funds for Jewish religious communities’ immovable property, says that the latest audit of the Good Will Foundation, which administers the money, has revealed no problems. […]

Lithuania: my journey of return

February 8, 2017 Gary S Eisenberg 0

As a Cape Town born Jew, my life has come full circle. Although I was born after his death, my zeida, Rabbi Shimon Ze’ev Aysenberg, played an indelible influence in my life. My father, Isaac Eisenberg, born in a stable in Mogilov, Belarus, in 1922, a medical doctor and writer, spent his life interpreting his childhood memories. […]

President proposes amendments to allow Snoras’ CEO trial in absentia

February 8, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday proposed amendments that would enable prosecution of financial offenders who have fled the country. […]

Minister of Education: University students numbers to fall until 2025

February 8, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s higher education network needs restructuring is needed not only to ensure better quality but also in response to demographic numbers, as the number of university student will be on the downward scale up until 2025, says Lithuania’s Education and Science Minister Jurgita Petrauskienė. […]

Lolita Zero: Haters see in me a reflection of what they themselves want to be

February 7, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

“The Eurovision stage is too small for my talent and ambition. It is but a stepping stone on my way to world fame. And trust me, it is not my ego or my horns speaking, it is the reality,” says Lolita Zero who invaded the Lithuanian pop scene with a bang, Soho Club wrote in a press release. […]

Vytautas Magnus, Education Sciences universities plan merger by 2018

February 6, 2017 BNS EN 0

Representatives of the Vytautas Magnus University and the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences have signed an integration agreement, which envisages merger by 2018. […]

Lietuva Cinema to be demolished. Welcome Modern Art Center

February 6, 2017 Ludo Segers 0

1 February was the last day for Lithuanians to say goodbye to a city landmark. The Lietuva Cinema is soon going to be demolished. The new owners, the Modern Art Center (MAC), threw a bit of a party and invited citizens to visit the place one last time. The place had closed down in 2005 and now the decaying structure will be flattened in February. […]

Violation control, traffic monitoring systems planned for roads

February 6, 2017 BNS EN 0

Over 20 traffic violation control and monitoring systems should be installed on Lithuania’s main roads by 2020 to record weight of heavy vehicles, speeding and other violations. […]

Lithaunia stops search for fisherman missing in Baltic Sea

February 6, 2017 BNS EN 0

The 18-hour search for a fisherman reported missing in the Baltic Sea was terminated in Lithuania on Sunday evening. […]

Kaunas might apply for European Youth Capital

February 6, 2017 BNS EN 0

Municipality of Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas aims to become the European Youth Capital, with a vote planned in the city council next week on whether it should send in its application. […]

Lithuania plans to regulate by law home births

February 3, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga has set up a working group that has until next summer to come up with proposals for putting in place a legal framework for home births. […]

Sodra extends deadline for paying off compulsory health insurance arrears

February 3, 2017 BNS EN 0

After causing an uproar by warning thousands of people to pay overdue compulsory health insurance contributions or face sanctions, the Lithuanian state-run social insurance fund Sodra said on Friday that it will wait for a month before taking action to recover the arrears. […]

Lithuanian and Hollywood films dominated Lithuania’s cinemas in 2016

February 2, 2017 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian cinemas were visited by over 3.6m people last year. Ticket sales reached more than €17.5m. A total of 291 films including 17 national productions were screened in 2106. […]