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Lithuania marks 27 yrs since death of volunteer Seimas guard Sakalauskas

August 21, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania marks on Tuesday 27 years since the death of Artūras Sakalauskas, a volunteer soldier who was killed in a clash with Soviet troops outside the parliament building in August 1991, thus becoming the last victim of the Soviet occupation. […]

Lukiškių Square design by Andrius Labašauskas

Vilnius central square monument contest winner says sculpture tradition is ‘dead’

November 27, 2017 BNS 0

Andrius Labašauskas, the winner of a competition for a monument to be installed in Vilnius’ central Lukiškių Square, says that the tradition of sculpture in art is obsolete, adding that he entered the contest to offer an alternative project. […]

EU Mobility Package – business urges to react immediately

December 4, 2019 0

The government’s decision to increase allowance rates given to posted drivers needs to be changed, while the EU’s constraints on the transport sector based on the EU Mobility Package must be evaluated responsibly. Otherwise, Lithuania […]

Lithuanian choir conductor brings Baltic choral tradition to the Netherlands

December 3, 2019 0

November saw the powerful début of the Baltic Project Choir, founded and led by Lithuanian choir conductor Sigita Žurauskaitė, in the northern city of Groningen, the Netherlands. The two-night program is part of a long-anticipated […]

What authority remains: do the “Farmers” still obey Karbauskis?

November 26, 2019 0

Farmer leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has for a long time been perceived as a politician with a firm hand, whose orders are obeyed without question by his Seimas group members. However, the drama over dismissing Seimas […]

Results of the confrontation: cabinet collapse could lead to another

November 24, 2019 0

How can you so confidently descended into a final confrontation when afterwards you lose it with such certainty? How can you not feel the impending loss, Lietuvos rytas asked in its editorial lrytas.lt? Such questions […]

The blame for hell in Alytus falls on the towers of Vilnius

November 22, 2019 0

Lithuania is not adequately prepared to handle a large scale ecological or technical accidents. This was displayed once again by the fire just recently put out in Alytus’ used tires recycling plant after it had […]

NATO is not brain-dead, Mr Macron!

November 20, 2019 0

From the Baltic Way to the Berlin Wall and then all the way to the restoration of independence on 11 March 1990, which was ultimately followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Those were […]