Society
WWII German war prisoner remains exhumed in Kaunas
Exhumation of remains of German prisoners of war of World War II has been started in the southern redoubt of the Kaunas fortress, Kauno Diena daily reports. […]
History
History
Was Pushkin’s great-grandfather baptised in Vilnius?
In the historic part of Vilnius, on Didžioji Street, there stands the Orthodox Church of Saint Paraskeva, one of the finest examples of nineteenth-century Byzantine style architecture in the Lithuanian capital.
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History
How Lithuanians became descendants of Ancient Romans
History is a powerful tool and sixteenth-century Lithuanian noble houses were only too happy to ground their contemporary power in a historical myth which traced their ancestry to Ancient Rome.
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Culture
Lithuania puts old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius under state protection
The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius has been listed among cultural objects protected by the state, under a decree signed by Lithuania’s Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis on Friday. […]
Opinion
The most beautiful woman of all time: Myths of Barbora Radvilaitė
In Lithuanian historical consciousness, Barbora Radvilaitė (or Barbara Radziwill, 1522-1551), the Grand Duchess of Lithuania and the Queen of Poland, occupies a special place. She is arguably the best-known woman in Lithuania’s history and one whose life has become a source of myth and fiction.
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Culture
Oldest building in Kaunas to be restored to its Renaissance glory
What is believed to be one of the oldest stone building in Kaunas will undergo major restoration. After the conservation-restoration works are complete, the building that faces the City Hall will regain some of its sixteenth-century façade.
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Foreign affairs
Society
Lithuania to commemorate Roma Holocaust
An event in Vilnius on Tuesday will pay tribute to the genocide of Roma people during World War Two. […]
Opinion
14-year-old chronicler of the Vilna Ghetto
More than seven decades ago, long queues of people would line outside the house number 4 on Žemaitijos Street in Vilnius. Each day, two hundred hungry and exhausted creatures came to the library of the Vilna Ghetto – not for bread, but for books. […]
Freetime
The Battle of Durbė: How medieval Samogitians defied the will of their king
The Battle of Durbė, in which rebelling Samogitians beat the Livonian Order in 1260, is undeservedly overshadowed by other medieval military victories, but it was a crucial moment in the history of pagan Lithuanians’ resistance to the encroachment of Christian knights.
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Culture
CORPORATE
Do the Lithuanian Communist Party’s historical actions make it a criminal organization?
This month, the Lithuanian parliament rejected a conservative resolution, calling for the declaration of the Lithuanian Communist Party (LCP) a criminal organization and a perpetrator of genocide against the people in Lithuania. Thirty-seven MPs voted […]
Culture
The Great Synagogue of Vilna, once the Vatican of Europe’s Jews
The Great Synagogue of Vilna was once to Jewish culture and religion what the Vatican is to Christendom, say archaeologists from the United States and Israel who are researching the edifice which was razed to the ground over half a century ago.
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Society
Memorialising Lithuanian deportees who perished in Siberia
Tens of thousands of Lithuanians were deported by Stalin to Siberia during and after World War Two. Villages in the distant reaches of Russia still bear traces of Lithuanian deportee communities, although time and neglect are taking toll on Lithuanian cemeteries.
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Uncategorized
From Dostoyevskian underground into TV: Russia’s new propagandists
The new propagandists who dominated the Russian media were formed by the experience of the trauma of the 1990s and the loss of the certainties of the Soviet past. Their ideology is a fusion of Soviet and imperial Russian ideas. Its chief intellectual weakness is that it must link Russian success to the failure of the West and democracy. […]
Global LT
The biggest global stars that you never knew were from Lithuania
Lithuania gave the world many stellar personalities that have and continue to entertain, impress and influence the world. Here is our selection of ten global stars you may not have suspected have Lithuanian blood. […]
Opinion
Curonians, the fearsome pirates of the Baltic
From the 9th to the 13th centuries, the present-day Lithuanian Baltic coast was inhabited by the Curonians, a Baltic tribe that inspired respectful fear even in the Scandinavians. Unfortunately, the Curonians did not found a state and were forced to recognise the rule of the Teutonic Order. Life by the sea was never calm. […]
Society
No one will be prosecuted from Lithuanian Holocaust perpetrators list, says Lithuanian prosecutor
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office has analysed a list of some 2,000 people suspected of involvement in the Holocaust, but will not be pursuing charges, because not one of them is still alive, 15min.lt reports. […]
Opinion
The Tatars: 700 years of influence on Lithuania’s history, language and food
The Lithuanian Tatar community is the oldest ethnic group living in Lithuania, having settled in the country when it was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century. They have had a profound influence on Lithuania’s history, language and food. […]
CORPORATE
Kaliningrad or Karaliaučius: A land fought over for centuries
Five years ago, I wrote about the first time I saw the lands of Kaliningrad, known as the Karaliaučius region in Lithuanian. My first impression was depressing. […]