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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. […]
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Elect the Lithuanian tree of the year
Polls are now open to elect the Lithuanian Tree of the Year from a pool of 12 “candidates”. […]
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PM Butkevičius attends India@70 reception
Prime Minister of Lithuania, HE Mr Algirdas Butkevičius, was the chief guest at a grand reception in Vilnius to mark the beginning of the 70th year of India’s independence. The reception was also attended by former Prime Ministers, several cabinet ministers and other prominent representatives of Lithuanian government, business and society, apart from the diplomatic corps. […]
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Vilnius University included among world’s top 500
The QS World University Rankings 2016–2017 marks an important milestone for Lithuanian academics with Vilnius University (VU) entering the list of the 500 most prominent universities in the world. […]
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Zarasai marks European days of Jewish culture
The town of Zarasai, nestled in the picturesque north-east of the country amongst sparkling lakes and gently rolling hills, may be best known as a summer holiday destination, but for two days this weekend it chose to highlight a different side of its cultural history. To mark the European Days of Jewish Culture, the Zarasai Regional Museum organised three events that gave the public an opportunity to reflect on the region’s largely vanished Jewish heritage. […]
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Lithuanian ambassador in UK gives more details about alleged hate crime attack in Northern Ireland
More details are available about the attack against Lithuanian migrants in Northern Ireland – the local police have told Lithuanian diplomats that unidentified individuals fired at least three shots at the house in Lurgan in early hours of Monday. […]
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Join our initiative for successful #RefugeesLT integration
The Lithuania Tribune is launching a project aimed at helping new refugees successfully integrate into the Lithuanian society. Lithuania has only just begun receiving refugees from the Middle East. This process is still in its embryonic stage; it is extremely important to get it right from the beginning. Successfully integrating refugees into the Lithuanian society is a huge task, and the Lithuania Tribune is ready to play an important part. Openness and publicity, that is the most effective way we can contribute. Therefore, the Lithuania Tribune is proposing to follow the process of refugee integration through the eyes of a Syrian refugee, a journalist who was resettled in Lithuania just two months ago. We are reaching out to you to help us make this project a reality, this is why we began this crowdfunding campaign. […]
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Vilnius unveils street signs in Polish and Russian
In celebration of the European Day of Languages, additional street signs have been unveiled in Polish and Russian on Warsaw Street and Russian Street in Vilnius. […]
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The stones of Molėtai: Shoah lesson in Lithuania
August 29th, 2016, has become truly important day for Lithuanian people, for Israel, and for all of us who does not know the past term for Holocaust. On that day, a small Lithuanian town of Moletai has become a scene of tangible and penetrating lesson on the Shoah. It was a rare event – unpretending, quiet and sincere; determined and devoted; the real thing. […]
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Kaunas school named after former President Adamkus
St. Francis Gymnasium in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, has been renamed after Lithuania’s former president Valdas Adamkus. […]
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Fewer students begin academic year in Lithuania
More than 30,000 first-graders are beginning school in Lithuania in the new academic year on September 1, several hundred more than last year. […]
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75th anniversary of massacre of Jews in Šeduva, Lithuania
Lithuania’s Prime Minister joined dozens of people marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the massacre of more than 650 Jews by Nazi occupiers and their local Lithuanian collaborators at the town of Šeduva on Tuesday. It was the third such event in as many days, coming after Holocaust-related commemorations in Biržai and Molėtai. […]
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Lithuania’s most influential public figures
Historian Alfredas Bumblauskas tops the list of Lithuania’s most influential public figures, according to a poll by DELFI and the Reitingai magazine. […]
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Vilnius hosts one of Europe’s biggest archaeology events
The European Association of Archeologists (EAA) is opening a congress in Vilnius on Wednesday, which is one of the biggest scientific events in Europe. […]
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Syrian refugee disappointed in Lithuanian landlords
Radwan is a journalist from Syria who moved to Vilnius from a refugee centre a few weeks ago. While he has already successfully found employment at Western Union, many potential landlords shut their doors upon seeing Radwan, with even some Facebook groups dedicated to looking for housing removing him. […]
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