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Vėlinės in Lithuania
All Saints’ Day, observed on November 1st, is an important holiday celebrated, notably, in Poland and Lithuania, which the opportunity to recognize the deceased. […]
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2 refugee families escape from Refugee Reception Center in Lithuania
Two refugee families have left the Refugee Reception Centre in Rukla, eastern Lithuania, and attempted to leave the country. […]
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Supreme Court quashes genocide conviction after ECHR decision
The Lithuanian Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the conviction of Vytautas Vasiliauskas, a former Soviet state security officer sentenced for genocide. […]
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UNHCR praises Lithuania for having prevented increased statelessness
Across the world, more than ten million people are not considered citizens by any state and face serious everyday difficulties, including limited access to basic rights. […]
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Kaunas family to be awarded as Righteous Among Nations
Israel’s Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon will Friday award the Yad Vashem medal and honors of Righteous Among the Nations to the Blažaičiai family, which risked their lives during World War II to rescue Jews from Nazi genocide. […]
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President says to recommend new govt to learn from Finland’s education reform
Noting that university mergers are inevitable in Lithuania, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that she will recommend that the new government learn from Finland’s successful higher education reform experience. […]
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Child pornography ring cracked in Lithuania in international operation
In an international operation against sexual abuse of children, officers of the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau have established eight individuals distributing a large number of pornographic files featuring small children. […]
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72 WWII-era explosives found in canal next to Klaipėda dolphinarium
Mine-clearing specialists discovered 72 World War II-era artillery shells in a canal next to the dolphinarium of Lithuania’s port city of Klaipėda, the Defence Ministry said. […]
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Biochemist Šikšnys awarded elite Warren Alpert Prize
Professor Virginijus Šikšnys, biochemist of the Vilnius University’s Institute of Biotechnology, has been awarded the elite Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for his remarkable contribution to the understanding of the CRISPR bacterial defence system and the revolutionary discovery that it can be adapted for genome editing. […]
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Šikšnys may get Nobel Prize in chemistry in later years
Fellows of prominent Lithuanian biochemist Virginijus Šikšnys believe the professor may be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of a gene editing tool in future years. […]
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Lithuania to step up language teaching of refugees
More intensive teaching of the Lithuanian language is planned for refugees – they will have to learn the language to the initial level of A1 within a month. […]
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Documents of Tauras guerrilla unit found in southwest Lithuania
Documents of Lithuanian guerrilla of the Tauras unit have been discovered in the Marijampolė district, southwestern Lithuania, the Special Archive said on October 4. […]
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Lithuania has highest share women teachers in EU
Lithuania has the highest proportion of women teachers in the European Union and one of the highest shares of teachers aged 50 years or older, figures from Eurostat showed on Tuesday. […]
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Biochemist Šikšnys may win Nobel Prize in chemistry
Virginijus Šikšnys of the Institute of Biotechnology at Vilnius University (VU) has a realistic chance of winning a Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday, VU Rector Artūras Žukauskas said on Tuesday. […]
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Grybauskaitė recognises 46 Lithuanians who saved Jews in WWII
President Dalia Grybauskaitė yesterday awarded the Life Saving Cross to forty-six Lithuanian citizens who risked danger to save Jews from probable death in Nazi-occupied Lithuania during World War II. Of the forty-six, only two were still alive to receive the award in person. […]
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Another 9 Syrian refugees relocated to Lithuania under EU programme
Nine Syrian refugees were relocated to Lithuania on Tuesday evening under the European Union’s (EU) program, the Interior Ministry told BNS. […]
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‘This day remains extremely painful to all of us’ – Prof Landsbergis at Paneriai (Ponar)
Paneriai,— The National Memorial Day for the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews was marked officially on September with a public commemoration at Paneriai, the most notorious Second World War massacre site in Lithuania where up to 100,000 people were killed. […]