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Lithuanian film festival Šeršėliafam excludes movie with Bartas from opening night

November 20, 2017 BNS 0

Organizers of the film festival Šeršėliafam have decided to exclude the movie featuring Šarūnas Bartas, the film director under the suspicion of sexual harassment, from the opening night, delfi.lt news portal said on Friday. […]

Lithuanian film director dismisses sexual misconduct charges, gives up municipal premises

November 14, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuanian film director Šarūnas Bartas on Tuesday said he disagreed with the sexual misconduct accusations leveled against him by two female artists, adding he would move out of the premises leased by the municipality for his Kinema studio on preferential terms. […]

Lithuanian culture minister applauds those speaking out about sexual misconduct

November 14, 2017 BNS 0

Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson on Monday voiced her support for women and men who come forward about sexual abuse as public accusations of sexual misconduct were made against Lithuania’s internationally-known film director Šarūnas Bartas. […]

Lithuanian actress accuses film director of sexual abuse

November 13, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuanian actress Julija Steponaitytė has accused film director Šarūnas Bartas of sexual abuse, saying the director hit on her when she was drunk. […]

NATO is not brain-dead, Mr Macron!

November 20, 2019 0

From the Baltic Way to the Berlin Wall and then all the way to the restoration of independence on 11 March 1990, which was ultimately followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Those were […]

Are we going to allow construction to begin on the second block of the Astravyets nuclear power plant?

November 19, 2019 0

We did not stop the building of the first block of the Astravyets nuclear power plant since we were arguing over who was guiltier instead of actually doing something about it. Maybe we could stop […]

“Farmer” tactics similar to a neighbouring country’s party

November 16, 2019 0

The elections that took place in Poland did not go unnoticed in Lithuania. With Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party has won the trust of its electorate yet again, hope to repeat the same winning […]

MEP Kubilius disappointed with Georgian constitutional amendment

November 15, 2019 0

Andrius Kubilius, Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the EPP Lithuanian delegation expresses concern with recent developments in Georgia, when the constitutional amendment on the transition to a proportional electoral system was rejected in the […]

100 days of the president – solely tax tariff increases won’t solve problems

November 14, 2019 0

They say that only after the first one hundred days can you really begin to be more critical of a president’s decisions, choices and behaviour. A hundred days is the limit for when the warmup […]

The welfare state in Lithuania needs war

November 12, 2019 0

There is so much talk about the welfare state vision that it can already be pictured in a physical manifestation – riding as if the Vytis, which was not allowed into Lukiškės Square, on its […]