Vilnius Regional Administrative Court has dropped an administrative case over putting up bilingual Lithuanian-Polish street signs in a number of settlements in Vilnius District after they were removed. […]
What do foreigners who have ever stayed, lived or are currently living in Lithuania think about the country and its people? And how are Lithuanians perceived by those who have never been to Lithuania? […]
Schoolchildren throughout Lithuania were looking smart and bearing the traditional gift of flowers for their teachers on 1 September, the first day of school. In Canada, the US, Thailand, and other nations, a slightly older group of Lithuanian students have returned from a summer at Vilnius University studying the language of their grandparents. […]
The State Commission for the Lithuanian Language has agreed to allow original spelling of non-Lithuanian names for foreigners who become naturalized Lithuanian citizens and for the Lithuanian nationals who adopt the last name of their foreign spouse after marriage. […]
On Monday, President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated the students of Vilnius University (VU) on the occasion of the New Academic Year and unveiled a renovated monument to Kristijonas Donelaitis, 18-century author credited as the father of Lithuanian-language fiction writing. […]
The Lithuanian epic poem Seasons (Metai) is a canonic masterpiece of early Lithuanian literature written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775 in the Prussian village of Tolminkiemis. In Metai, rebellious Donelaitis depicted indigenous Lithuanian serfs subjected to mistreatment at the hands of German colonizers. […]
Eight thousand names that are in breach of the standard language norms have been registered in Lithuania, so such forms of the person’s name could be transferred to a person’s identity documents, presume the representatives of the European Foundation of Human Rights (EFHR). […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday backed a proposal to remove the provision on bilingual street signs from the draft Law on National Minorities which is currently being debated by the lawmakers. […]
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