
Thousands take part in Lithuania’s 25th independence anniversary march in Vilnius
Thousands of people took part in a festive parade as Lithuania marked the 25th anniversary of its independence restoration on Wednesday. […]
Thousands of people took part in a festive parade as Lithuania marked the 25th anniversary of its independence restoration on Wednesday. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called the murder of one of the key Russian opposition figures, Boris Nemtsov, Russia‘s sliding into the “darkness of terror”. […]
During a gruelling 48 whirlwind tour of the US Capital, Professor Vytautas Landsbergis and Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius participated in the 25th anniversary celebration of reinstatement of Lithuanian independence and visited some of the most influential political leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner and Senator John McCain. […]
On Wednesday, the prestigious Library of Congress in Washington DC turned out to be the perfect backdrop to start the 25th anniversary celebrations of the reinstatement of Lithuania’s independence on 11 March 1990. Close to 200 dignitaries turned up, including Professor Vytautas Landsbergis, Linas Linkevičius, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rokas Masiulis, the Minister of Energy, and Congressman Michael Turner of Ohio. Among the dignitaries were also the Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Andriy Parubiy and the former Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili. […]
The world is faced with a new challenge, while Ukraine is defending itself in a war waged by the Kremlin, says Lithuania’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
Lithuanians of the US Capital region celebrated on Sunday, 15 February, the 97th anniversary of Lithuania as the modern day State, on one of the most blistery, cold days in recent memory. The day’s celebration started with a Latin mass in St. Matthews Cathedral. Monsignor Rolandas Makrickas of the Apostolic Nunciature to the United States welcomed the congregation the historic downtown cathedral. At the end of the service, Deanne Howes sang the Lithuanian national anthem, joined by well over 150 Lithuanians. The attendees walked the short distance on icy sidewalks to a nearby hotel for a breakfast. Washington Lithuanian Community leader, Danelė Vidutienė, introduced Žygimantas Pavilionis, Lithuania’s Ambassador to the United States. The Ambassador gave a brief overview of his tenure in the US Capital. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-Soviet leader and honorary chairman of the conservative Homeland Union, says that the Minks agreement for ceasefire between Kiev’s forces and Moscow-supported separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine, which was signed on Thursday, is worse than the Munich agreement of 1938. […]
Amid fears by some politicians of a new “Munich Agreement” in talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said that she trusts that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not betray Ukraine or Lithuania. […]
Lithuania’s first post-independence leader, signatory to the 11 March Act, former speaker of the Supreme-Council-Reconstituent Seimas, Vytautas Landsbergis, has called for the restoration of conscription in Lithuania in the wake Russia‘s aggression in Ukraine. […]
Lithuania’s government has suggested that parliament pass a law ensuring security for Vytautas Landsbergis, the country’s first post-independence leader. […]
“Russia is an unreliable partner, irrespectively of what it says. The world is beginning to learn how to see what Russia actually does,” says Prof. Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
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