Culture

President Grybauskaitė invites Lithuanians to join remembrance campaign

Over 1,500 Lithuanian schools, state institutions and organisations have responded to the invitation by the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania and President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is a patron of the initiative, to participate in the civic campaign Memory is Alive Through Testimony, which is dedicated to the Day of Freedom Defenders. […]

Foreign affairs

Lithuanian president and foreign minister sign condolence book at French Embassy

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Friday signed a book of condolences at the French Embassy in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in Paris. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

Lithuanian president says there’s no need for new parliamentary probe into CIA prison

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says she sees no need to resume parliamentary investigation into an alleged CIA prison in Lithuania, but calls on law enforcement agencies to continue their separate probe. […]

Politics

Direct mayoral election reform is incomplete, President Grybauskaitė says

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has commented on the new mayoral election procedures and said that the the self-government reform has not been completed and will require additional amendments to the current laws. […]

L to R: Ukrainian National Information Service rep. Michael Sawkiw, American-Latvian Union rep. Ausma Tomevics, US-Lithuanian Community rep. Asta Banionytė, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Belarus-American Union rep. Ali
Global LT

Ukraine supporters meet with US senator

Danelė Vidutienė, chair of the US-Lithuanian Community Public Affairs Council, Asta Banionytė, member of the Council and former Capitol Hill staffer, and representatives of the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) met with US Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH). […]