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  • Politics

The search for new ministers begins. Farmers not looking among their own

Eugenijus Jovaiša, Mindaugas Puidokas, Robertas Šarknickas and Kęstutis Mažeika are “Farmer” group members, whose names are, according to lrt.lt sources,…

6 years ago
  • Politics

J. Petrauskienė: the reforms we started touched numerous interests

On Monday, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis announced his dismissal of three ministers – Minister of Culture Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson, Minister of…

6 years ago
  • Politics

E. Gentvilas on Skvernelis’ move: with one more minister removed, he would run for president as a victim

Liberal Movement leader Eugenijus Gentvilas tells lrt.lt that Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, who has announced the firing of three ministers,…

6 years ago
  • Culture

Lithuanian Film Week pays tribute to Lithuanian cinema in Warsaw

The Lithuanian Film Week, the most extensive presentation project of Lithuanian cinema in Poland over the last few years, kicked…

6 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian cultmin to attend cultural summit in Edinburgh

Lithuanian Minister of Culture Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson will attend the Edinburgh International Culture Summit's plenary sessions and discussions. [...]

6 years ago
  • Culture

Lithuania introduces ‘cultural passport’ for schoolchildren

Lithuania is set to launch on September 1 a state-funded program for schoolchildren aimed at improving their access to cultural…

6 years ago
  • History
  • Society

Remains of Lithuanian 1918 independence act signatory Biržiška reburied in Vilnius

The remains of Mykolas Biržiška, one of the twenty signatories of Lithuania's 1918 declaration of independence, was reburied in Vilnius…

6 years ago
  • Culture

Baltics set up joint cultural foundation

The culture ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Sunday signed in Riga an agreement on the establishment of a…

6 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Estonian, German culture ministers to attend Song Festival events in Vilnius

The Estonian and German culture ministries will visit Vilnius on Thursday and Friday to attend the Song Festival and other…

6 years ago
  • Culture

Song festival: thousand of songs and participant elder than independent Lithuania

A thousand of songs will be performed during the Lithuanian Song Festival, starting this week, and some of them will…

6 years ago
  • Society

International Book Fair opens in Vilnius

The four-day Vilnius Book Fair is opening at the exhibition and congress centre Litexpo on Thursday. [...]

7 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania planning concerts, exhibitions in prestigious European spaces for centennial

Lithuania will celebrate the centennial anniversary of its statehood with presentation of Lithuanian art, music and movies in prestigious European…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Culture minister off to World Economic Forum in Davos

Lithuania's Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson is on Saturday leaving for the Swiss resort of Davos to attend the European Cultural…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Culture minister advises Russian envoy to talk to municipalities over soldiers graves

Lithuanian Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson on Tuesday met with Russia's ambassador to Vilnius, Alexander Udaltsov, to discuss issues of importance…

7 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

A cabinet whose time needs to be endured

With Saulius Skvernelis’ cabinet reaching its first birthday, a chorus of Happy Birthday is nowhere to be heard. On the…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs
  • Global LT

Lithuania needs guarantees from Russia before investing in Donelaitis museum renovation

Lithuania cannot invest in renovating the 18th century poet Kristijonas Donelaitis' museum in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad until it…

7 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian culture minister applauds those speaking out about sexual misconduct

Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson on Monday voiced her support for women and men who come forward about sexual abuse as…

7 years ago
  • Culture
  • Foreign affairs

Journalist wins competition for Lithuania’s culture attache to New York

Gražina Michnevičiūtė, journalist and editor-in-chief of the magazine Moteris, has won a competition for Lithuania's culture attache to New York,…

7 years ago
  • Culture

Minister of culture sees plans to perform Belarus ballet Vytautas in Vilnius as provocation

Plans to perform the Belarusian-produced ballet Vytautas (Vitaut) in Vilnius next January and link it to the official program for…

7 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

A disappointing response to the tragic story of Lithuanian partisans that angered the Kremlin

Just three years ago the Kremlin was greatly angered by a video about post-war freedom fighters in the Baltics shared…

7 years ago