President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is in Italy on a working visit, has opened an exhibition entitled Historical Ties between Milan and Lithuania: Bona Sforza and the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Milan’s Sforza Castle, the presidential press service said. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday it had received Taiwan‘s official apology over the recent incident when Lithuania’s old Soviet anthem was played during the award ceremony of the 2015 World Deaf Basketball Championship after the Lithuanian team won gold medals. […]
Will Greece remain part of integrated Europe or will it not, choosing Grexit instead? Europeans, especially the political and non-political commentators, see the Greek situation in a quite primitive way: Greeks had an easy life in the European Union, misusing the funding, constructing irresponsible financial arrangements. Finally they are at the dead end. […]
Lithuania knows the exact day when it became part of Europe. That was on 6 July 1253, when Duke Mindaugas, shortly after having accepted baptism, was crowned by the Pope of Rome the king of still largely pagan lands. The 6 of July is now celebrated as Lithuania’s Statehood Day and although its a holiday of recent vintage (it was not observed before the 1990s), it already involves a tradition. Each 6 July, Lithuanians in the country and abroad join in the singing of the national anthem. […]
Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas calls Russian media reports of a probe allegedly launched in Russia into the recognition of the Baltic states’ independence in 1991 “propaganda”. […]
Lithuania marks the State Day (the Coronation of King Mindaugas) on Monday. On this occasion, Lithuania’s residents and Lithuanians living abroad are being traditionally invited to sing the national anthem together. […]
Russia‘s Prosecutor General’s Office has opened an investigation into the legitimacy of the independence of the Baltic states. The office is to look into whether a decision, made by the State Council of the USSR in 1991, to recognize the three breakaway states as independent nations was legal, newsru.com reports. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania decided on Tuesday to classify information about former KGB collaborators for 75 years after 80 MPs voted in favour, 12 were against and 17 abstained. […]
Lithuania marks the Mourning and Hope Day on June 14, commemorating the start of the occupation by the Soviet Union in 1940 and the beginning of mass deportations. […]
Lithuanian prosecutors have decided to appeal against the court ruling to clear former commanders of the Soviet special militia unit OMON of charges, the Prosecutor General‘s Office said on Friday. […]
That’s because the first two positions in Russia’s enemy ratings are reserved for extremely superior players. Lithuania in the third spot might sound counterintuitive, but it’s no joke, it’s an actual fact. But let’s unpack it in proper order. It comes as no surprise that Russia’s enemy number one is the United States, the only remaining superpower and world policeman after the collapse of the USSR. […]
Vilnius court on Friday heard testimony of Tomas Šernas, the only survivor of the 1991 Medininkai checkpoint massacre, in the case where charges have been brought in absentia against three Russian citizens. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has invited Ms Marija Elena Romeryte (Marisha Helena Romer in English) to the Presidential Palace in Vilnius on May 20. President Grybauskaitė will be presented with two original oils painted by Marisha’s grandmother, renowned Lithuanian artist Sofija Romeriene, whose life and works have been extensively documented and published. Some of her works, considered Lithuanian National Treasure, appear in the most prestigious museums of Lithuania, Poland as well as London. […]
At its plenary sitting, the Seimas of Lithuania marked the 95th anniversary of the Constituent Seimas on Friday. Loreta Graužinienė, the speaker of the Seimas, pointed out that the Constituent Seimas was the first representative of the Lithuanian nation that had its first democratic, universal and direct elections. […]
As Russia marks the victory over Nazi Germany in WWII, several thousand people, mainly Russian-speakers, gathered at Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius to pay tribute to WWII victims and surviving war veterans. […]
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