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Eugenijus Jovaiša, Mindaugas Puidokas, Robertas Šarknickas and Kęstutis Mažeika are “Farmer” group members, whose names are, according to lrt.lt sources, brought up among the potential candidates to the recently freed minister positions. The “Farmer” leaders do not reveal yet, what candidacies are b...
On Monday, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis announced his dismissal of three ministers – Minister of Culture Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson, Minister of Environment Kęstutis Navickas and Minister of Education and Science Jurgita Petrauskienė. The latter’s ministry has been the site of a sit-in by some thirt...
Liberal Movement leader Eugenijus Gentvilas tells lrt.lt that Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, who has announced the firing of three ministers, may seek to provoke a dissolution of the cabinet and use this to portray himself as a victim in the presidential elections, lrt.lt writes.
The Lithuanian Film Week, the most extensive presentation project of Lithuanian cinema in Poland over the last few years, kicked off Friday night in Warsaw’s Iluzjon cinema. The occasion crowns the year-long series of events celebrating Lithuanian cinema and the centenary of Lithuanian statehood. Th...
Lithuanian Minister of Culture Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson will attend the Edinburgh International Culture Summit's plenary sessions and discussions.
Lithuania is set to launch on September 1 a state-funded program for schoolchildren aimed at improving their access to cultural and educational projects and events.
The remains of Mykolas Biržiška, one of the twenty signatories of Lithuania's 1918 declaration of independence, was reburied in Vilnius on Wednesday.
The culture ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Sunday signed in Riga an agreement on the establishment of a Baltic cultural foundation.
The Estonian and German culture ministries will visit Vilnius on Thursday and Friday to attend the Song Festival and other cultural events, the Lithuanian Culture Ministry said.
A thousand of songs will be performed during the Lithuanian Song Festival, starting this week, and some of them will be performed by a Lithuanian-Australian who is elder than an independent Lithuania.
The four-day Vilnius Book Fair is opening at the exhibition and congress centre Litexpo on Thursday.
Lithuania will celebrate the centennial anniversary of its statehood with presentation of Lithuanian art, music and movies in prestigious European art spaces abroad, with over a dozen of Lithuanian literature translations to be published.
Lithuania's Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson is on Saturday leaving for the Swiss resort of Davos to attend the European Cultural Heritage Conference and the World Economic Forum.
Lithuanian Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson on Tuesday met with Russia's ambassador to Vilnius, Alexander Udaltsov, to discuss issues of importance to both countries and cooperation in the field of culture.
Lithuania cannot invest in renovating the 18th century poet Kristijonas Donelaitis' museum in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad until it receives guarantees from the neighbouring country that the intended use and owners of the renovated buildings will not be changed, Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-...
Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson on Monday voiced her support for women and men who come forward about sexual abuse as public accusations of sexual misconduct were made against Lithuania's internationally-known film director Šarūnas Bartas.
Gražina Michnevičiūtė, journalist and editor-in-chief of the magazine Moteris, has won a competition for Lithuania's culture attache to New York, the Culture Ministry said.
Plans to perform the Belarusian-produced ballet Vytautas (Vitaut) in Vilnius next January and link it to the official program for celebrations of the centenary of the restoration of Lithuania's statehood is a demonstration of soft power and provocation, Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson said.
