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Actors being prepared for scenes in Ashes In The Snow

Bestseller about Lithuanian exiles in Soviet Russia being adapted to film in Lithuania

January 29, 2016 www.DELFI.lt 0

You are surrounded by a blizzard and a never-ending snowscape as far as the eye can see. All you can hear is your own breath, and all you can feel is biting cold. From far away, a team of huskies pulls a sleigh. This is the first scene from a movie called Ashes in the Snow currently being filmed based on Rūta Šepetys‘ bestseller Between Shades of Gray. […]

Zapad 2013 Russian military 'lands' on the shores of Kaliningrad

Antanaitis: ‘The Russians will want to test us’

September 16, 2025 0

“First of all, these exercises are intended to demonstrate their power. The Russians are beginning to appear to the world and NATO as a weak link, a weak state. The Russians need to flex their […]

At the border – “Dragon Teeth,” above their heads – smuggling balloons: they told how Lithuania is preparing

September 8, 2025 0

With the joint Russian-Belarusian Zapad military exercises approaching, the Lithuanian army and border guards are preparing for all possible scenarios. It becomes clear when visiting towns in the Vilnius district near the border with Belarus, […]

The Russian language dilemma in Vilnius: which way forward?

August 25, 2025 0

Is there too much Russian spoken in Vilnius? Over the past year, many Vilnius residents have responded to this increasingly common question by saying that it is an indisputable fact, lrytas.lt writes in its editorial Laiko […]