Children in Lithuania should attend school from the age of six so that they graduate before they turn 19 or 20, Eugenijus Jovaiša, head of the Seimas Committee on Education and Science, said on Tuesday. […]
“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 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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday proposed amendments that would enable prosecution of financial offenders who have fled the country. […]
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. […]
“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. […]
Representatives of the Vytautas Magnus University and the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences have signed an integration agreement, which envisages merger by 2018. […]
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. […]
The 18-hour search for a fisherman reported missing in the Baltic Sea was terminated in Lithuania on Sunday evening. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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