To celebrate the Day of the Restoration of Independence on March 11, Vilnius changed the arrangement of traffic lights from the usual red-yellow-green to yellow-green-red, the colours of Lithuania’s national flag. […]
About 1,000 people took part in a controversial rally organized by the Union of National Youth in central Vilnius, chanting slogans “Lithuania for Lithuanians”. The event was held on March 11, when Lithuania celebrated the 26th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union. […]
Ambassador Toomas Kukk welcomed members of the diplomatic corps, Seimas members (parliament) and friends of Estonia in the Estonian Embassy in Vilnius to celebrate the 98th Estonia’s Independence day. […]
Diverging views on poetry has become an issue of a heated debate on history and censorship after Lithuania’s minister of defence denied a state award to an author whose analysis of the Soviet past did not match the minister’s own opinion. At the centre of the controversy is the poet Justinas Marcinkevičius whose name, for many, is synonymous with the country’s independence movement. […]
The Consulate of Lithuania and the Lithuanian community in St. Petersburg are already preparing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Lithuanian state, in 2018. […]
We meet with Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis on a quiet Sunday morning in the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for the last interview before he leaves the USA and returns to Lithuania. […]
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. […]
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. […]
A book about Lithuania’s road to independence, in which Polish journalists look at their neighbours through the eyes of Czeslaw Okinczyc, a signatory to the Lithuanian Act of Independence, was presented at Warsaw Book Fair on Saturday, the daily Lietuvos Rytas reports. […]
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. […]
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. […]
25th Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence of Lithuania was celebrated in Brussels on March 16. Belgium’s government and business officials, diplomats, representatives from NATO and EU institutions and friends of Lithuania were present at the event. […]
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. […]
On 11 March, Lithuania’s 25-year anniversary of restored independence was celebrated in Luxembourg. Numerous guests that included Luxembourg officials, public figures, diplomats, representatives of EU institutions in Luxembourg and almost 200 Lithuanian community members gathered in cultural center “Tramsschapp” to commemorate this special occasion. […]
I would like to share my celebration with you. Some of you might have noticed me wearing amber today – this is not to say that I am not an amber fan in general, but this time I was wearing my grandmother’s necklace for a reason. I thought I would share with you some thoughts that I wrote for my international friends. […]
Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis welcomed the Lithuanian community and many friends. Looking at his watch, he informed the audience that it was already 11 March in Lithuania and that the 25th anniversary of re-establishing the modern state of Lithuania could officially start. […]
Around one thousand people attended the nationalist march in central Vilnius on Wednesday, an event that usually sparks controversy over chants “Lithuania for Lithuanians”. […]
Thousands of people took part in a festive parade as Lithuania marked the 25th anniversary of its independence restoration on Wednesday. […]
As Lithuania marks the 25th anniversary of its independence restoration on Wednesday, President Dalia Grybauskaitė called on Lithuanians to unite in the wake of new threats. […]
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