Assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was a shocking wake-up call for many all over the globe. Circumstances were more than eloquent – bullets hit Nemtsov right in front of Kremlin and merely one day before the planned protest march. […]
Travellers and prominent public figures intend to organize a three-year trip around the globe as a way to celebrate 100 years since Lithuania restored independence in 1918. […]
At the bilateral meeting on 10 March in Vilnius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius expressed his gratitude to Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson for his country’s courageous action – recognition of Lithuania’s independence on 11 February 1991. In June, this event will be commemorated in Vilnius by civic campaign Thank You, Iceland, Lithuanian MFA reports. […]
A Kaunas court on Thursday found former Soviet security officer Stanislovas Drelingas guilty of genocide and sentenced him to five years in prison for participating in a 1956 operation to detain Lithuanian guerrilla leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. […]
Can we speak about our former enemies and talk to them, or shall we keep the distance, ignore and insist that they are not worth our attention? I’ve concluded the following: if we are scared of something, we tend to pretend that it simply does not exist. If we are able to look into the eyes of the former enemy, it means that today we are ready to stand up to them again and defend our beliefs. […]
This is probably the most difficult piece in my life. […]
In her latest book, Three Lithuanian Europes: the Nation, Europe, and the EU in Modern Identity, philosopher Nerija Putinaitė‘s quest to flag the wellsprings of Lithuanians’ European identity guides readers from the real demise of an imaginary pre-historic golden age, to a barbarian king’s Latin baptism and festive 500th anniversary celebrations of Vytautas, Duke of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. […]
On 11 March, Lithuania will be celebrating a quarter-century anniversary of restoring its independence. Freedom, global Lithuania, the Lithuanian identity and unity are concepts that are dear to Algirdas Kaušpėdas, an architect, singer and one of the leaders of the Sąjūdis, the 1980s liberation movement that culminated in Lithuania declaring independence from the Soviet Union on 11 March 1990. […]
Arvid Bryne is a well-known Norwegian journalist and author and one of the best friends Lithuania has in Norway. A quarter of a century ago, he was among those who witnessed first-hand the challenges that Lithuania went through to build an independent and democratic state; moreover, he lent a hand in dealing with some of them. […]
By 2018, when Lithuania will mark the 100-year anniversary of establishing an independent state, there must be monuments put up for Jonas Basanavičius, one of the most important independence activists, and Antanas Smetona, the first president of Lithuania, believes Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Visaginas has undergone a radical transition from rapid growth under Soviet planning and mono-functional industrial development to dramatic shrinkage under a multilateral and multi-scalar competitive determination of resources and workplaces. […]
Ronaldas Račinskas, the head of the International Commission for the Evaluation of Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, approves of the ideas of Polish politicians when they say that events marking the end of World War II hostilities should take place in other European capitals and not in Moscow. He says that Russia continues to justify its actions with categories from World War II. […]
The Soviet statues on the Green Bridge in central Vilnius will not be removed from the Register of Cultural Monuments, a special panel at the Department of Cultural Heritage, which evaluates immovable cultural heritage objects, decided on Tuesday. […]
The 500th anniversary of, Mikolaj Radziwill the Black, one of the most prominent noblemen of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, is commemorated by the Bank of Lithuania with the issue of a 20-euro collector coin. It was presented to the public at the Vilnius Radziwill Museum, the Bank said. […]
Tuesday marked the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Tanks of the First Ukrainian Front broke through the enclosures 70 years ago. […]
Fashion TV founder and owner Michel Adam has chosen Vilnius, Lithuania, as the site for a full feature film. Shanghai 1939: Exodus from Vienna is based on his mother’s true life story during World War II. […]
On 27 January 2015, Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, together with the delegation led by the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in Auschwitz, Poland. […]
Latvian President Andris Berzins says it is impossible for him to attend the 9 May “victory day” celebrations in Moscow. […]
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