On 19 May, the Andrei Sakharov Centre for Research on Democracy Development at Vilnius City Hall organised an auction of paintings by former Foreign Minister, diplomat and signatory Petras Vaitiekūnas and symbolic bricks created by […]
In response to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, the West and Lithuania continue to look for possible measures to influence the Kremlin regime. The Kaliningrad blockade is among the options under consideration, Indrė Naureckaitė writes […]
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who rose up to challenge the last dictator in Europe, eternal Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, is now in Vilnius. But is her decision to travel to Lithuania actually a victory of our country’s […]
On 13 January 1991, 27 years ago, Lithuania stood up for freedom. Not only for its own. We defended the European future. But for the victory there and then, Lithuania and Europe would be very […]
Central and Eastern European politicians have urged United States President-Elect Donald Trump to stop making concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he could view the steps as weaknesses and undertake provocations against the Baltic states and Poland. […]
The former “Peasant” shadow cabinet can turn into smoke. Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis cheerfully noted to LRT.lt that “shadows dissipate eventually”. So who is going to lay claim to minister posts? […]
Both with the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and the Lithuanian Peasant Greens Union (LVŽS) promise definite changes in Lithuanian tax, security and foreign policy political scientist Algis Krupavičius told LRT.lt. But how […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union, or LŽVS, said on Wednesday that Saulius Skvernelis, a former interior minister, will be the prime minister if the party wins the upcoming general elections. […]
Lithuania’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Petras Vaitiekūnas, has received the Community of Democracies’ Mark Palmer Prize, which is awarded to diplomats for their merits in advancing democracy and peace in the world, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuania’s former foreign minister, diplomat Petras Vaitiekūnas, will serve as adviser to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on voluntary basis. […]
Ambassadors do not pop up out of the blue and, for Marius Janukonis, Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Ukraine, the journey has been, he says, “a natural course of the diplomatic career”. But landing a diplomatic post in a country like Ukraine is obviously “a big challenge”, he agrees. […]
The Lithuanian parliament has awarded the country’s allies in the United States, local representatives and officials for their contribution to Lithuania’s independence and statehood. […]
Director of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry‘s Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Department, Marius Janukonis, will be appointed as Lithuania’s new ambassador to Ukraine. […]
Foreign countries must help Ukraine stop Russia and not allow the ongoing conflict to expand, former Lithuanian Ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas said after being awarded a medal for merits to the Lithuanian diplomatic service on Monday. […]
Soon the time will come when Russia will issue an official apology for Soviet occupation from the stand of the Lithuanian Seimas, according to Petras Vaitiekūnas, Lithuania’s former ambassador to Ukraine and one-time foreign minister. He said this at a solemn parliamentary sitting on Tuesday to mark the 24th anniversary of the 13 January 1991 events. […]
Petras Vaitiekūnas, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania to Ukraine, has decided to quit the diplomatic service after returning to Vilnius once his term of office ends. Vaitiekūnas’, 61, diplomatic career spanned over two decades, vz.lt reports. He served as Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs between 2006 and 2008. […]
Lithuania’s national radio LRT gave the Person of the Year title to Lithuania’s ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas. He was awarded for his “diplomatic courage”. […]
A group of Ukrainian school students will spend the upcoming autumn holidays in Lithuania. […]
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