People like anniversaries, and 75 years since the establishment of Kaunas Ghetto is a good opportunity to remember the history of Lithuania’s Litvaks, says a British expat offering an original way of doing it. […]
A wooden synagogue from the 1930s which was recently discovered underneath another building near Kaunas will not be preserved, the Kauno Diena daily reports. […]
On Wednesday, the Vilnius city council decided against considering a “pillow tax.” 16 voted for considering the change, 9 voted against it, and 16 abstained. […]
When Robertas Račkauskas isn’t managing his company, he likes to pilot an unmanned drone to take beautiful, sweeping videos of the Lithuanian countryside, observing it from a bird’s eye view. […]
An estimated 300 ultra-nationalists marched in Kaunas on Independence Day chanting anti-refugee slogans and celebrating what Jewish groups say are Nazi-collaborators who were leading Lithuanian figures in the interwar period. […]
Visvaldas Matijošaitis has won Lithuania’s best mayor award. The elections were organised for the eighth consecutive year. The mayor of Klaipėda, Vytautas Grubliauskas came in second place with Vilnius mayor Remigijus Šimašius in third. […]
“Sometimes I think, how come we weren’t a least bit afraid – even for my husband, who was a Soviet army conscript at the time?” Odeta Barkauskienė, a factory worker at the time of the turbulent events of January 1991, remembers her spontaneous decision to join civil guards of a broadcasting station near Kaunas. […]
Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas has become the first Central and Eastern European city granted the status of a UNESCO design city in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, reports Invest Lithuania, the state investment promotion agency. […]
Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced it will add operations from Kaunas to complement its low-cost Lithuanian flight services. From 29 March, the airline will start operating a new service with five flights a week between Kaunas airport and London Luton. […]
Daiva Gineikaitė, head of the National Land Service (NZT) under the Ministry of Agriculture, has been temporarily placed on unpaid leave pending the results of an investigation into whether or not she was driving under the influence of alcohol when she caused a traffic accident in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city. The decision was made after her meeting with Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė on Monday. […]
Residents of Kaunas and exchange students curiously glanced at a crowd, standing outside despite the cold around an imposing metal menorah next to the colourfully lit Musical Theater. Holding Bengal lights, members of the small Jewish community in Kaunas, their ethnic Lithuanian friends, and Israeli students gathered on Tuesday to celebrate the third day of Hanukkah – the festival of lights. Chassidic techno-pop music in Hebrew was blasting from loudspeakers. […]
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