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We know love is blind. It is inexplicable. We can say the same about voter sympathies. Sociologist, after evaluating citizens’ interests, social status and prevalent moods can in part guess their preferences, though truth be told, typically it is already past facts that are analysed, which are grant...
A generation of young Lithuanians has nearly grown up, which has from birth listened to musings on whether Gitanas Nausėda will participate in the presidential elections. Already in 2009, kindergarteners probably knew how to draw a sun, their mom and the house under the Pūčkoriai Outcrop.
If you think that it is politicians that rule us, you are mistaken. They do not rule, instead they have been bickering for two years, if not over fur coats, then over the budget. And neither the fur coats, nor the budget is theirs. The fur coats belong to Greta, the budget – to Vilius [Šapoka]. As f...
From the very start it was not clear to me, why the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) party veterans rushed the Facebook generation into party leadership, especially their raising of political newcomer Gabrielius Landsbergis into the position of party chairman.
Arvydas Juozaitis, a philosopher and one of the initiators of the Sąjūdis national revival movement, has on Monday announced his decision to run for president of Lithuania, naming the language, family, national education and justice as his key priorities.
The biggest loser in this Seimas election has been the Labour Party, having failed to pass the 5% vote barrier. That said, no less a blow was that to the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) which had been dominant in ratings nigh on up to election day. What do the Social Democrats need to do aft...
