The special website for expatriates, recently launched in Lithuania, will provide all necessary information about the country and its municipalities "at any time of the day", Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says.
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On 13-14 June, more than 500 Lithuanians from Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands participated in Lithuanian sports games “BeNeLux2015” which were held for the tenth time at NATO Headquarters’ Sports Center in Brussels.
The Geelong Vytis sports club made history this month by participating in the 65th SALFASS (Šiaurės Amerikos Lietuvių Fizinio Auklėjimo ir Sporto Sąjunga) Sporto Šventė in Cleveland, USA on June 4-7.
Athletes at the 65th North American Lithuanian Sports Games in Cleveland gathered on Saturday evening at the Lithuanian Community Center for a moment of silence for 63-year-old Edmundas Capas, who died of a massive heart attack earlier in the day while playing in a table tennis match at the games...
Lithuanians from across Ireland came together in Dublin last weekend to play some ball and raise funds for children with cancer in the Basketball Day.
The Geelong Vytis Sports Club will make history this June by participating in the 65th North American Sporto Šventė in Cleveland, Ohio, for the very first time.
On 23 April in Toronto, 40 professionals of Lithuanian descent founded the Canadian-Lithuanian team.
On March 28, the Lithuanian Association in Ireland celebrated a decade of their activity. In Dublin, Hilton Hotel, an appreciation event "A Flight of A White Bird" has been organised for this beautiful occasion.
On Tuesday, 17 February, the Embassy of Lithuania in Washington took on a bit of pagan festive charm, celebrating Užgavėnės (Shrove Tuesday) with an evening of music and typical food. The evening was organised by the Lithuanian Community of Washington. A surprising large crowd gathered as the US Cap...
Lithuanian repatriates joined in for celebrations of 16 February, Lithuania's independence day, in Vilnius. Members of the NGO "Sugrįžus", founded by former expatriates who have returned to Lithuania, held a gathering by Gediminas Castle on Monday afternoon, sporting flags of Lithuania as well as th...
A few months ago, the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) began a debate on forming a new permanent committee on emigration.
Cepelinas is a greasy and very filling potato-and-minced-meat staple of the Lithuanian cuisine that many a foreigner - and most locals - struggle to finish an average serving of. However, the more sturdy eaters are challenged to a cepelinas eating competition in South Australia.
Last Saturday, 10 January, the 24th international run, the Road of Life and Death, dedicated to commemorate defenders of Lithuania's freedom, took place in Lithuania, Belgium and Ireland. Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also took part in the event.
When an e-mail from Vilnius came with an invitation to join the traditional annual run "On the Road of Life and Death", we were listening to Brahms' piano concerto in Portland performed by a student of the prestigious Rice University in Houston (Texas), Lithuanian pianist Rūta Kuzmickaitė who was bo...
Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė met with the newly appointed Irish Ambassador to Lithuania David Robert Noonan who rejoiced at the strong Lithuanian community in Ireland.
British journalist and writer Edward Lucas has urged the West to “wake up” in its response to Russia's actions, calling upon Lithuanian expats to help their country in the information warfare.
Danelė Vidutienė, chair of the US-Lithuanian Community Public Affairs Council, Asta Banionytė, member of the Council and former Capitol Hill staffer, and representatives of the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) met with US Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
The Lithuanian Community in Australia welcomes everyone in the Bankstown Community and beyond to attend our Lithuanian Sports and Cultural Festival to be held from 26/12/14 - 31/12/14 in Bankstown. The theme being "Ten mūsų tėvynė, čia mūsų namai" translated means "That is our Homeland, this is our ...
The Lithuanian community in Italy has launched a new online platform, itlietuviai.it, aimed at consolidating contact among expatriates living across the Southern European country.
More than 619,000 Lithuanians live abroad, show statistical data published by the Lithuanian Statistics Department on Friday. One in five of the expatriates live in the United Kingdom.
