Foreign affairs
Seimas speaker readying to visit Poland
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is going to Warsaw later this week to deliver a speech at the Polish parliament and meet with its leaders. […]
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Society
Landsbergis in hospital, to miss Lithuania’s centennial celebrations
Lithuania’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis is in hospital being treated for flue complications and will miss Friday’s centenary celebrations, his son Vytautas V. Landsbergis confirmed on Thursday. […]
CORPORATE
G. Kirkilas: 2G against common Lithuanian foreign and defence policy
Two young political party leaders – the Conservatives’ Gabrielius Landsbergis and LSDP’s Gintautas Paluckas – two weeks ago ruined signing the traditional parliamentary political party agreement on foreign, security and defence policy for 2018-2020, which […]
CORPORATE
Presidential election forecast – new favourite rising
December data from Spinter Tyrimai over potential candidates to the post of president presented a surprise – economist Gitanas Nausėda stepped over the other two favourites. Based on a survey commissioned by the Delfi news […]
Society
Exhibition of Lithuania’s Feb. 16 Independence Act opens in House of Signatories
A solemn ceremony was held in the House of Signatories in Old Town Vilnius on Sunday to inaugurate the exhibition of the February 16 1918 Independence Act brought to Lithuania from Germany. […]
Politics
Lithuania as unsafe as never before – Landsbergis
Lithuania’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis says that the current security situation in the country is worse than back when Lithuania was fighting for independence 27 years ago. […]
Society
Basanavičius, Landsbergis, Smetona found as Lithuania’s persons of the year – poll
Lithuania’s residents and historians believe that the three figures with the main contribution to the country’s statehood over the past century include Jonas Basanavičius, the father of national rebirth, Supreme Council Chairman Vytautas Landsbergis and interwar president Antanas Smetona. […]
Opinion
Vidmantas Valiušaitis. Regarding Škirpa – my Dear Mayor, the truth is rather to the contrary
The recent assertion by the Mayor of Vilnius, Remigijus Šimašius, regarding the Lithuanian diplomat and military officer, Col. Kazys Škirpa, and the pending attempt to “recall” the dedication of the street in Vilnius in his honour, compels me to respond. I do so in the name of truth and justice. The mayor opines that, while he concedes that Col. Škirpa was one of the first military volunteers to raise the Lithuanian flag at Gediminas Castle, on the other hand, he also allegedly called for the removal of the Jews. The Mayor goes on to say, “I am not inclined to agree that people, who have made such a declaration, be honoured by naming a street after them,” and he further asserts that “discussion on the matter has taken place” and now awaits “the decision of the Vilnius City Council on the matter.” […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania should look at Pilsudski’s merits, mistakes on anniversary – Landsbergis
Lithuania should openly look at the merits and mistakes of the interwar Polish leader, Juzef Pilsudski, Lithuania’s former head of state Vytautas Landsbergis said on the 150-year anniversary of Pilsudski in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]
Society
Seimas votes to award Freedom Prize to nun, dissident Sadūnaitė (Updated)
The Lithuanian parliament decided on Thursday to award the Freedom Prize to Nijolė Sadūnaitė, a Roman Catholic nun and former Soviet-time dissident. […]
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Soviet nomenclature should not have been permitted to take positions of authority
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 […]
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V. Landsbergis: being a president, just as a priest, requires a calling
“There are many who wish to be president, but very few who have a calling for it. It is a problem for wishes and calling to match. A calling is not ambition, it is suitability […]
History
Landsbergis has always been Lithuania’s first head-of-state – president
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-independence leader, has always been the first head-of-state and will always have the status, which cannot be changed by any laws or machinations, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Politics
President wishes Landsbergis years of activity, creativity on 85th anniversary
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated Vytautas Landsbergis, the country’s first post-independence leader, on his 85th anniversary on Wednesday. […]
Foreign affairs
Landsbergis awarded Lithuanian Diplomacy Star
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Thursday awarded the ministry’s sign of honor, the Lithuanian Diplomacy Star, to Vytautas Landsbergis, the chairman of the country’s Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas who is often titled as the first-post independence state leader. […]
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B. Matelis. R. Karbauskis’ strike at V. Landsbergis – insignificant on a historical scale
I believe that Seimas Speaker V. Pranckietis was earnest when he proposed to acknowledge V. Landsbergis as the factual head of state for when he was in the office of Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas […]
Politics
PM says he backs benefits for Landsbergis, but not president’s status
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis thinks that Lithuania’s first post-Soviet leader Vytautas Landsbergis should be granted benefits that a former head of state is entitled to by law, but not the status of a president. […]
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R. Juknevičienė responds to R. Karbauskis comments on the status of V. Landsbergis
After the Farmer Greens leader Ramūnas Karbauskis stated he doubts whether most of his group’s members would support Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis‘ initiative over granting former Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas chairman Vytautas Landsbergis the […]
Politics
Landsbergis was Lithuania’s head of state – PM
Vytautas Landsbergis was Lithuania’s head of state when he served as the speaker of the Supreme Council–Reconstituent Seimas, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said. […]
Politics
LFGU leader doubts party’s MPs would back president status for Landsbergis
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), says that he doubts that the majority of the ruling party’s lawmakers would support Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis‘ initiative to grant the status of a former head of state and associated guarantees to Vytautas Landsbergis, the former speaker of the Supreme Council–Reconstituent Seimas. […]