The state forest service and forest officials have responded to more than 320 potential fires in forests this year, but the Ministry of Environment has said that the terrible Curonian spit forest fires of 2014 will not happen again.
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In Lithuania, 84% of students applying to higher education institutions are accepted, but 44% of professors say that many students are poorly or very poorly prepared for higher education.
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In 1941, exactly 75 years ago, Lithuanian rebels led by the Lithuanian Activist Front began their fight for Lithuanian independence in what is now known as the June Uprising.
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A team of experts from the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel and Lithuania is starting to study the remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius and other ritual constructions buried under the ground.
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More refugees will be resettled in Lithuania within the coming month, according to the country’s Ministry of the Interior.
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The Rokiškis Regional Museum and the US-based non-profit organization Remembering Litvaks, have established a new research award, the volunteer Private Ruvin Bun award, to encourage a better understanding of the contribution of ethnic minorities to the founding of an independent Lithuanian state. […]
Around 2,000 people joined the pride march For Equality on the Gediminas avenue in Vilnius on Saturday in a massive show of support to the Lithuanian LGBT community.
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The Special Investigation Services (STT) arrested two people in the port of Klaipėda on Thursday during a raid held as part of an investigation into potential corruption in the port city.
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Many believe Lithuania has too many universities, and some are beginning to address this problem by downsizing or merging.
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A small group protested outside the Russian Drama Theatre in Vilnius which hosted a Baltic Pride event on Thursday.
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About 300 people organized by Lithuanian trade unions gathered to protest the new Labour Code, which critics say will narrow the social benefits for employees.
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The Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) has passed a set of legal amendments design to prevent gender-based discrimination in the workplace and to make existing Lithuanian discrimination laws more similar to European Union law.
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A Lithuanian inmate won a case at the European Court of Human Rights against the Prisons Department’s ban on growing beards at internment facilities.
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The Baltic Pride LGBT festival kicked off on Wednesday and will culminate in a pride parade in Vilnius.
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The organizers of heavy metal legend Iron Maiden‘s concert in Lithuania have changed the band’s posters into a version that is less frightening for children.
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Tens of thousands of Lithuanians were deported by Stalin to Siberia during and after World War Two. Villages in the distant reaches of Russia still bear traces of Lithuanian deportee communities, although time and neglect are taking toll on Lithuanian cemeteries.
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A conference to be held in the parliament (Seimas) will review Lithuania’s law against domestic violence, which was passed five years ago, how it has worked, and how it might be changed.
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An attack in a gay bar in Orlando, Florida, shocked the world just one week before an LGBT pride event in Lithuania. Some of the reactions to the news from Orlando made it clear that homophobia is still a huge problem in the country.
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Lithuanian society considers deportation a tragedy of the Lithuanian nation even though a few thousand Jews were also deported, Faina Kukliansky, the leader of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, said on the 75-year anniversary of the start of mass deportations.
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A Lithuanian court has found Jonas Gailiūnas, 88, guilty of deportations of civilians, sentencing him to five years in prison, though he will not go to jail due to his frail health.
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