Society
Israeli President Rivlin offers condolences over death of Donskis
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has expressed his condolences to Jolanta Donskienė, the wife of Lithuania’s late philosopher Leonidas Donskis. […]
Society
Society
President awards 46 Jewish rescuers with Life Saving Crosses
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday signed a decree to award Life Saving Crosses to 46 people who rescued Jews from the Holocaust during World War II. […]
Society
Leonidas Donskis – a farewell. How is it possible?
In that one split moment, in the morning hours at the Vilnius airport on the way from Šeteniai to St Petersburg, on that single Wednesday on the 21st of September, when the world was celebrating the Order of the Smile and people gathered in churches to Pray for Peace, on the anniversary of the passing of Virgil and the killing of 1159 Jewish neighbours by the death commando in Vėlučionys near Vilnius …; […]
Society
Lithuania commemorates Jewish genocide victims
Lithuania is commemorating Jewish Genocide Memorial Day today, on September 23. […]
Society
Graužinienė doubts current Seimas will pass name-spelling law
Lithuanian Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she doubts that the outgoing parliament will adopt a law on the spelling of first and last names in official documents. […]
Society
Lithuanian LGBT community will not remain silent: Lithuania Comes Out 99 LGBT+
On Tuesday evening at “Paviljonas” Jazz Club, filmmaker Romas Zabarauskas and photographer ARCANA FEMINA presented a unique book on the LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and others) community – Lietuva atsiskleidžia: 99 LGBT+ istorijos (Lithuania Comes Out: 99 LGBT+ Stories). […]
Society
Vilnius court orders entering another name with W in passport
A Vilnius court has ruled that name of another Lithuanian citizen should be spelled with the non-Lithuanian character W in his passport and personal identity card. […]
Society
Litvaks again applying for Lithuanian passports after legal amendment
After an amendment to the Citizenship Law took effect in Lithuania in July, Litvaks, i.e. Jews of Lithuanian origin, living in Israel and the Republic of South Africa are again submitting applications for restoration of their Lithuanian citizenship, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday. […]
Society
Radio and TV watchdog suggests ban on portals broadcasting registration-free TV
The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission has suggested blocking access to websites who have failed to notify it about broadcasts of rebroadcasts of television programs to users in Lithuania. […]
Society
Philosopher Donskis passes away
Lithuania’s former MEP, philosopher Leonidas Donskis, passed away on Wednesday morning. […]
Society
Drinking among Lithuanian teenagers below European level
A survey of teenagers across Europe showed last year that the number of Lithuanian 15- and 16-year-olds who drank alcohol in the past month was below the average level in Europe. […]
Society
Seimas votes down ban on smoking on flats’ balconies
The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday voted down a proposal to ban smoking on balconies of multi-apartment buildings. […]
Society
Week of Jewish Commemoration at New Šančiai Synagogue in Kaunas
Kaunas —Saturday marked the opening of a weeklong public program at the New Šančiai Synagogue in Kaunas, Lithuania, commemorating of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania. Organised by the International Centre for Litvak Photography, or IC4LP, the program is the launch and first instalment of a long-term artistic activity called the Kaunas Requiem, which involves the composition of an experimental music-based artwork that is proposed to run for a duration of seventy-five years. The program also offers the public an opportunity to engage with two of the centre’s ongoing remembrance projects on the theme of the lost Jewish culture of Kaunas and its surrounds, one photographic and one architectural. […]
Society
Revamped Trump-Putin graffiti in Vilnius sends new message on cannabis
The famous graffiti picturing US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has been renewed in Vilnius. […]
Defence
Diplomat: Minority situation may make it difficult to persuade Poles to defend Lithuania
A Polish diplomat stated on Friday that the situation of Polish minorities in Lithuania is worse than that in Belarus, and the outstanding problems may make it difficult to persuade Polish troops to take care of Baltic security. […]
Society
Peasants and Greens name Skvernelis shadow PM, unveil 9 more shadow ministers
The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union, or LŽVS, said on Wednesday that Saulius Skvernelis, a former interior minister, will be the prime minister if the party wins the upcoming general elections. […]
Society
Seimas panel suggests to support president’s veto on assisted insemination
The Lithuanian parliament’s Health Affairs Committee on Wednesday decided to suggest that the Seimas supports the veto of President Dalia Grybauskaitė against the Assisted Insemination Law. […]
Society
To Whom It May Concern… before it is too late! #RefugeesLT
This is the first text from our #RefugeesLT initiative.
On my third month in Lithuania as a refugee, and as I am passing through different situations here varying between the good and bad, I can confidently say now that Lithuanians have all the good seeds inside them to blossom and prove they are not less in generosity and willingness to extend a hand to help than any other nation who has received refugees along the history so far. I could see this with all my Lithuanian friends around me and even those who I met by chance in the streets as I needed to ask about anything and they happened to know that I am a refugee. […]
Society
Lithuania makes progress, but still has ‘pockets of poverty’
The Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta, on a visit to Vilnius, says that Lithuania has made a big progress, but there are still many disadvantaged and vulnerable people in the country. […]
Society
Lithuanian town of Šiauliai celebrates 780-year anniversary
Šiauliai, Lithuania’s fourth biggest city located in northern part of the country, is celebrating its 780-year anniversary. […]