With general elections approaching, the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, one of Lithuania’s major political parties, is facing the prospect of another term in opposition. […]
Linas Muliolis was your average young Lithuanian born in the USA. The son of World War II refugees, Linas grew up in Cleveland’s Lithuanian community. In January 1991, he was just a month away from turning 21 years old and was in Vilnius during the historic January 13 events. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-communist head of state, received an award on Wednesday in recognition of his contribution to the country’s freedom. The award was presented by several non-governmental organizations, after the Seimas snubbed Landsbergis for its annual Freedom Prize. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, the first head of state of Lithuania after secession from the Soviet Union in 1990, has caused minor controversy by refusing to participate in January 13 commemoration events in parliament. […]
On the evening of 13 January 1991, journalist Eglė Bučelytė was broadcasting from the Lithuanian Radio and Television studio in Vilnius when Soviet paratroopers broke into the building to cut off her live broadcast. With the approach of that significant day’s 25th anniversary, Bučelytė spoke to Delfi about her experiences. […]
The Lithuanian Seimas snubbed Vytautas Landsbergis, chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania (the reconstituent Seimas) and signatory of the Independence Restoration Act, when it voted to deny him the 2015 Freedom Prize on 24 November. Now, however, the Public Council under the Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of The Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation has addressed Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė, calling for the prize to be awarded to Landsbergis. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is also among those who believe that the Seimas should have awarded the Freedom Prize 2015 to Vytautas Landsbergis, the first head of the restored and independent Republic of Lithuania, chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania (Reconstituent Seimas), signatory of the Independence Restoration Act. […]
Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė believes that Vytautas Landsbergis – who was the first head of the restored and independent Republic of Lithuania, the chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania, and a signatory of the Independence Restoration Act – should have been awarded with the very first Freedom Prize. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania has rejected the motion to award Conservative MEP Vytautas Landsbergis, a prominent leader of Lithuania’s independence movement, with a prestigious Freedom Prize. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, a prominent politician and one of the architects of the modern state of Lithuania, has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Vilnius. […]
Refuting the myth that Lithuanian expatriates in the United Kingdom care little about social problems at their home country, some members of the Lithuanian community wish to bring focus on what they think is the biggest social sore in Lithuania, suicide. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, the patriarch of Lithuanian politics known for his tough anti-Russian stance, is uncompromisingly critical of how NATO countries have responded to Russia‘s recent incursions into Turkey‘s airspace. […]
Lithuania’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis on Monday strongly criticized the work of prosecutors in the January 13 case, saying that they have diminished the importance of the investigation. […]
About 300 people celebrated the 75-year anniversary of the US declaration that condemned the half-century occupation of the Baltic states. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the “black list” of European Union officials prepared by Russia is part of the propaganda war. […]
A draft declaration has been registered in the Lithuanian Seimas, calling for the status of a head of state to be granted to Vytautas Landsbergis, the country’s first post-Soviet leader and former president of the Supreme Council-Reconstitutent Seimas. […]
Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuanian conservatives’ 33-year-old star and very likely future chairman, has perhaps just made his first major gaffe. His flip-flop on the issue of (dis)continuing in the European Parliament seat in case he gets elected to chair his party, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has drawn some irk from Jurgis Razma, one of the light-weight contenders in the race. […]
Social Democratic Deputy Parliament Speaker Gediminas Kirkilas says that the resignation of Andrius Kubilius as chairman of the oppositional conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) was a sensible step. […]
When Gabrielius Landsbergis, 33, breathed his way last summer into the European Parliament, for many the success of his campaign seemed to have much to do with his family lineage – namely, his legendary grandfather, patriarch of Lithuania’s modern politics Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
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