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Over 40,000 people were deported from Lithuania in May 1948

Lithuania commemorates 40,000 victims of Soviet deportations

May 20, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania is paying tribute on Friday to victims of the biggest Soviet deportations in 1948. […]

Armoured horses and chain mail: The guide to becoming a Medieval Lithuanian Knight

May 20, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

“The backpack of a modern infantry soldier weighs just much as the armour of a medieval knight. And it is a myth that an armoured warrior could not get up, if he fell down,” says Medieval armoury enthusiast Karolis Jankauskas. […]

Vilnius has a plan to fight youth alcoholism

May 19, 2016 George East 0

Vilnius Municipality is serious about addressing substance abuse among the city’s youth. […]

Russian TV channel accused of inciting hatred sanctioned

May 18, 2016 BNS 0

Lithuania’s media watchdog decided on Wednesday to obligate re-broadcasters to move the Russian-language NTV Mir Lithuania to their paid channel packages. […]

A quarter of Lithuanians have never used internet

May 18, 2016 LT Daily 0

A quarter of the Lithuanian population has never been connected to the internet and almost half of Lithuania’s population has limited internet usage skills, according to Paulius Vertelka, association INFOBALT executive director. […]

44 new HIV cases diagnosed in Lithuania in 2016

May 17, 2016 BNS 0

Forty-four people, 32 men and 12 women, were diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in Lithuania in the first quarter of this year, the Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS said on Tuesday. […]

Hollywood star Sean Penn’s grandfather came from which town in Lithuania?

May 17, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

The famous US actor Sean Penn, two-time Oscar winner, appears to have Lithuanian roots with his Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) grandfather born in Lithuania in 1879. […]

France to build memorial for French POWs in Neringa

May 17, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

France is considering to build a monument on Lithuania’s Curonian Spit to commemorate French soldiers who perished here during nineteenth-century military conflicts. […]

61,000 signatures for alcohol abuse initiative submitted to government

May 16, 2016 BNS 0

A group of activists on Monday submitted more than 61,000 signatures in support of a legislative initiative aimed at cutting alcohol consumption in Lithuania over to the Central Electoral Commission. […]

Consumers march against high prices in Kaunas

May 16, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

A march to protest against the high prices of goods was held in Kaunas on Saturday as a follow up to the three-day boycott of supermarkets organised earlier in the week. […]

Lithuanian prosecutors want MG Baltic vice-president detained for three months

May 13, 2016 BNS 0

Lithuanian prosecutors will ask a court to issue an arrest warrant for MG Baltic vice-president Raimondas Kurlianskis who is suspected in a bribery and influence peddling investigation. […]

Calling on Gods of Thunder: the Crusaders and Lithuania’s pagan warriors

May 13, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

In the thirteenth century Lithuanians had to face an onslaught of Livonian and German crusaders, great military organizations whose raison d’etre was war on non-Christian religions. For pagan Lithuanians, who had just formed military forces of their own, their faith played an equally important part in how they met the Crusader challenge. […]

Leaked new sex-ed program criticised for focusing on abstinence

May 12, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

An allegedly leaked copy of a sexual education project being prepared by the Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science has revealed a program which seems to rely primarily on abstinence. […]

Jurors may return to Lithuanian courts

May 11, 2016 BNS 0

Lithuania’s government decided on Wednesday to reintroduce the position of public jurors in the country’s courts, also developing a process for their selection. […]

Parliament to pass new ‘social model’ with updated Labour Code by July

May 11, 2016 BNS 0

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said that an agreement has been reached with the leaders of all of the Seimas‘ parliamentary groups on the adoption of a so-called new social model, a package of laws including a new Labour Code, by July. […]