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Thousands take part in Lithuania’s 25th independence anniversary march in Vilnius

March 12, 2015 BNS 0

Thousands of people took part in a festive parade as Lithuania marked the 25th anniversary of its independence restoration on Wednesday. […]

Kremlin's critic Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in central Moscow

Nemtsov’s murder shows Russia’s sliding to “darkness of terror” – Lithuanian president

February 28, 2015 BNS EN 0

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”. […]

Professor Landsbergis speaking with Senator John McCain Photo Ludo Segers

Professor Landsbergis and Foreign Minister Linkevičius in Washington

February 27, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

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. […]

Library of Congress Lithunian Regaining Independence Celebration Photo Ludo Segers

US Library of Congress hosts Lithuania’s 25th anniversary of independence celebration

February 27, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

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. […]

Landsbergis on Independence Day: Ukraine is defending us all

February 17, 2015 BNS 0

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. […]

Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis addressing the Lithuania Community

Lithuania’s16 February Celebration in Washington USA

February 16, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

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 on Minsk agreement: It is worse than Munich

February 13, 2015 DELFI EN 0

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. […]

Lithuanian president says she trusts Merkel and rejects fears of “second Munich”

February 9, 2015 BNS 0

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. […]

Vytautas Landsbergis calls for restoring conscript army in Lithuania

January 12, 2015 BNS 0

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 first post-independence leader Landsbergis to receive life-long protection

December 23, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s government has suggested that parliament pass a law ensuring security for Vytautas Landsbergis, the country’s first post-independence leader. […]

Ukraine needs medicines and sleeping bags, not weapons, says peacekeepers represetative

October 29, 2014 BNS 0

Ukraine needs help in developing the systems and not assistance in the form of weapons, Sergey Grabsky, head of a peacekeepers’ association in Ukraine, says. […]

Vytautas Landsbergis: There are guys Putin is afraid of

October 18, 2014 www.lrt.lt 0

“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. […]

Lithuanian leaders: Shevardnadze was a controversial figure

July 7, 2014 BNS 0

Former Georgian president and one of the last foreign ministers of the USSR Eduard Shevardnadze died in Tbilisi on Monday, aged 86. Lithuanian leaders say he was a controversial figure, whose legacy will include both great achievements and misdeeds. […]