Seduvos Bernai entertaining Washington audience   Photo Ludo Segers
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Lithuanian Shrove Tuesday event in Washington D.C.

On Tuesday, 17 February, the Embassy of Lithuania in Washington took on a bit of pagan festive charm, celebrating Užgavėnės (Shrove Tuesday) with an evening of music and typical food. The evening was organised by the Lithuanian Community of Washington. A surprising large crowd gathered as the US Capital appeared almost completely shut down after some heavy snowfall overnight. […]

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Lithuanian repatriates celebrate “World in Lithuania” on 16 February

Lithuanian repatriates joined in for celebrations of 16 February, Lithuania’s independence day, in Vilnius. Members of the NGO “Sugrįžus”, founded by former expatriates who have returned to Lithuania, held a gathering by Gediminas Castle on Monday afternoon, sporting flags of Lithuania as well as the countries that were formerly their homes. […]

Inga Sadaunikaitė-Kozhevnikov (with a flag) organized a team of runners in response to an invitation from Vilnius. Photo by Darius Kuzmickas
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US Lithuanians organize 13 January run in Portland

When an e-mail from Vilnius came with an invitation to join the traditional annual run “On the Road of Life and Death”, we were listening to Brahms’ piano concerto in Portland performed by a student of the prestigious Rice University in Houston (Texas), Lithuanian pianist Rūta Kuzmickaitė who was born five years after the historic events of 13 January 1991. She had returned for holidays to her family in Oregon. […]

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Irish ambassador: Lithuanian community in Ireland should be included in bilateral projects

Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė met with the newly appointed Irish Ambassador to Lithuania David Robert Noonan who rejoiced at the strong Lithuanian community in Ireland. […]

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Over 600,000 Lithuanians live abroad

More than 619,000 Lithuanians live abroad, show statistical data published by the Lithuanian Statistics Department on Friday. One in five of the expatriates live in the United Kingdom. […]

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Returning to the land of their grandparents, diaspora learners spend a summer studying Lithuanian at Vilnius University

Schoolchildren throughout Lithuania were looking smart and bearing the traditional gift of flowers for their teachers on 1 September, the first day of school. In Canada, the US, Thailand, and other nations, a slightly older group of Lithuanian students have returned from a summer at Vilnius University studying the language of their grandparents. […]