Anti-Soviet resistance fighters
Society

Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance fighter stripped of state decoration due to involvement in Holocaust

After President Dalia Grybauskaitė changed a 2000 decree on state awards for Lithuania’s post-war anti-Soviet resistance fighters, one partisan, Pranas Končius-Adomas, was stripped of the Order of the Cross of Vytis, a decoration conferred on people who defended Lithuania’s freedom and independence. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

Lithuania needs new refugee integration model, president says

Lithuania needs to create a new refugee integration model, the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday. […]

Karen Dawisha delivering Keynote Address   Photo Ludo Segers
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Vilnius Democracy Forum discusses democracy and lack thereof east of Lithuania

Monday afternoon saw about 200 academics, political scientists, diplomats, members of the Seimas (parliament), democracy promoting think-thanks and action groups gathering in the Presidential Palace in Vilnius for the start of a two-day conference to discuss democracy or the lack thereof, particularly east of the Lithuanian border. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Society

Lithuanian president to visit Iraqi refugee families

President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday will visit homes in St. Peter and St. Paul parish and together with Vilnius Archbishop Gintaras Grušas will meet with families from Iraq living there. […]