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Equality and Diversity Award winners. Photo: Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson

Tolerance and awareness-promoting initiatives honoured with Equality and Diversity Awards

April 19, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

The annual Equality and Diversity Awards were handed out on Monday to celebrate projects and initiatives that contributed to advancing human rights and tolerance in Lithuania in 2015. […]

Businessman promoting Jewish memory wins Person of Tolerance award

February 15, 2016 BNS 0

Businessman Valdas Balčiūnas has been named the 2015 Person of Tolerance in Lithuania, the public organization “Sugihara Foundation – Diplomats for Life” told BNS on Saturday. […]

Estonian and Latvian tourists: travel is motivated by desire to escape familiar environments

October 28, 2020 0

During the months of July and August, the Lithuanian tourism development agency Lithuania Travel surveyed more than 700 tourists from Estonia and Latvia. Estonian and Latvian tourists interviewed in Lithuania this summer longed for change […]

Will the Kremlin go beyond election interference?

October 26, 2020 0

Once the Kremlin is persuaded that Joe Biden will become the US’s next president, it may go for the jugular. Already today, not election manipulation, but triggering civil conflicts in the United States could be […]

Parliament election 2020: 3 centre-right parties to form a coalition Government

October 26, 2020 0

Lithuania had decided who is going to rule it for another four years. The results of Sunday’s parliament election 2020 runoff show the new parliament will have representatives from ten political parties, as well as […]

With “Farmers” lagging behind Conservatives, Karbauskis speaks about his political future

October 23, 2020 0

With the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) taking a clear lead in the first round of the Seimas elections, ruling Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) leader Ramūnas Karbauskis stated that he is […]

Future of Vilnius, Tallinn and Riga: Lithuania can win on only one condition

October 14, 2020 0

The Baltic capitals Vilnius, Tallinn and Riga with similar indicators have always competed for the attention of foreign investors. However, recently analysts have been saying that Vilnius may break out within the next five years […]

Lithuanian Parliament elections: the first round is over, the second round to go

October 12, 2020 0

The first round of Lithuanian Parliament elections has ended. All of the votes had been counted. One thing is clear that nothing is clear yet since only a half (plus three) of the Parliament mandates […]