The Baltic Way greatly adjusted my, a then Sąjūdis Seimas council member and council secretariat official, forecasts. I had no doubt that the event, which was already being considered from early 1989, would succeed, but […]
On August 23 the Baltic States celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way human chain which stretched from Vilnius to Tallinn and on August 24 Ukraine celebrates its Independence Day. H. E. Volodymyr Yatsenkivskyi, […]
The wheel of time turns again and we must once again ask the question, which silently hid in the minds and souls of many Sąjūdis members or was perhaps carefully whispered during the Sąjūdis founding […]
Arvydas Juozaitis, a philosopher and one of the initiators of the Sąjūdis national revival movement, has on Monday announced his decision to run for president of Lithuania, naming the language, family, national education and justice as his key priorities. […]
With Conservative – Christian Democrat Vygaudas Ušackas declaring his participation in the presidential elections, political scientists have been debating, whose electorate he will draw – Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ or economist Gitanas Nausėda‘s, if either […]
The largest political powers in the country – the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) and the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) have begun “celebrating the feast of democracy” and are choosing, who to […]
Arvydas Juozaitis, a Lithuanian philosopher and one of the initiators of the Lithuanian reform movement Sąjūdis, is mulling running for president. […]
The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania has published KGB documents on Lithuania’s reform movement Sąjūdis on www.kgbveikla.lt, as the movement’s 30th anniversary approaches. […]
Many are asking why politics in Lithuania has become only scandals and settling of scores between politicians, shamelessly employing power structures. Even more, businessmen, journalists and public figures are drawn into politicians’ disputes. By reacting […]
The Lithuanian people view themselves as patriots, are particularly proud of their forefathers’ land and its rich history, public opinion researchers say. However we have certain unique features which make Lithuanian patriotism unique even compared […]
I particularly enjoy the day after the celebration when the bustling crowds have dispersed, flags that have yet to be taken off continue to fly in the wind, the homeless, sparrows and cats take their […]
Lithuania’s former president Valdas Adamkus has emphasized the importance of continuity in public life and unity of the nation, inviting youth to take active interest in history. Speaking on the country’s centennial anniversary, he urged politicians to act in a way to make sure that the youth is not disappointed in the state and public life. […]
Vytautas Bogušis, then a ninth-grade student, 43 years ago bought pieces of cloth for a hand-made yellow-green-red Lithuanian flag that his schoolmates raised in the Rasų Cemetery in Vilnius, the capital of the Soviet-occupied Lithuania, on the eve of Feb. 16, 1975. […]
If in independent Lithuania the Soviet nomenclature had been prohibited from occupying positions of authority, we’d be talking about the government in a completely different way. That’s what philosopher, writer and public figure Nerija Putinaitė […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated Vytautas Landsbergis, the country’s first post-independence leader, on his 85th anniversary on Wednesday. […]
The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center (LGGRTC) is starting publishing agency reports by agents of the Soviet special service KGB. […]
Lithuania marks on Wednesday the 30th anniversary of the first unsanctioned public rally of the Soviet period that took place near the monument to poet Adomas Mickevičius (Adam Mickiewicz) in Vilnius in 1987. […]
The “Farmers” are planning changes to the Constitution that will prevent members of Seimas from being cabinet ministers, as well as reducing the number of members of Seimas to 101 and holding Seimas elections not […]
The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat (TS-LKD) party’s problems have remained throughout the leadership of both Andrius Kubilius and Gabrielius Landsbergis and without changes at the very top leadership the Conservatives will not eradicate their flaws. This is what one of the candidates to party chairmanship Paulius Saudargas. […]
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