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Lithuania has a long history of being home to ethnic minority communities, from as early as 1323 when Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas invited foreign artisans and merchants to come to Lithuania and settle there without interference in their customs and culture.
Lithuanians, the last pagans of Europe, took their time to fully embrace Christianity in their daily lives and mixed it with older pagan rites. The religious sensibilities of Lithuanian peasants in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries is a topic of a new study by historian Vytautas Ališauskas.
Many in Lithuania have been criticizing Poland's new government, but former Lithuanian ambassador to the US Žygimantas Pavilionis believes that the return of a strategic partnership between Poland and Lithuania should be our greatest foreign policy priority. According to Pavilionis, those now critic...
Lithuania is a small country in comparison to Russia. So why does the Kremlin pay Lithuania a disproportionate amount of its attention? One reason is that it needs weak enemies that it can divert its people’s attention to. There was a time when Russian polls indicated that they saw Lithuania as thei...
On 1 December in Warsaw, the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita presented the Jerzy Giedroyc award to Tomas Venclova, the Lithuanian poet, translator, publicist, and a well-known figure, for contributing to the current literary scene in Central and Eastern Europe. The award was also presented to the In...
There will be more clarity about the fate of the Soviet statues which were recently removed from the Green Bridge of Vilnius in autumn, says Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius, adding that he has already received six official requests to take the statues.
A Lithuanian delegation has left for Grunwald, Poland, to attend the 605th anniversary of the Battle of Žalgiris (also known as the Battle of Grunwald), Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said on Friday.
That’s because the first two positions in Russia’s enemy ratings are reserved for extremely superior players. Lithuania in the third spot might sound counterintuitive, but it’s no joke, it’s an actual fact. But let’s unpack it in proper order. It comes as no surprise that Russia’s enemy number one i...
More than two years of work on the restoration and preservation of Jewish heritage in Šeduva were marked in a private ceremony at the town’s recently restored Jewish cemetery (Žvejų gatvė). More than 400 tombstones have been identified and more than 1,300 have been either painstakingly restored or p...
Segments of a belt, believed to be worn by Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas, go on display at the Grand Dukes Palace in Vilnius.
In her latest book, Three Lithuanian Europes: the Nation, Europe, and the EU in Modern Identity, philosopher Nerija Putinaitė's quest to flag the wellsprings of Lithuanians' European identity guides readers from the real demise of an imaginary pre-historic golden age, to a barbarian king's Latin bap...
The 500th anniversary of, Mikolaj Radziwill the Black, one of the most prominent noblemen of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, is commemorated by the Bank of Lithuania with the issue of a 20-euro collector coin. It was presented to the public at the Vilnius Radziwill Museum, the Bank said.
On 4 February, the exhibition “The Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania and its Reconstruction” was opened and an international seminar was held for this occasion at the Army Museum in Stockholm.
On 29 January, the Bank of Lithuania issued into circulation a 50-euro collector coin, dedicated to coinage in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. This is the first collector Lithuanian euro coin, the Bank of Lithuania said.
Historical memory has a strong impact on the cohesion of political society. The historical memory of any given society is affected by a whole range of factors, such as the methodology and content of history teaching at school, the creation of various memorials and alternative sources of information ...
Lithuania's two largest cities of Vilnius and Kaunas will this month hold concerts to raise money for the treatment of people injured in the fighting in Eastern Ukraine.
As Lithuania has been a member of a great supranational union for a decade now, Lithuanians are forced to confront the question of their collective identity, says philosopher Nerija Putinaitė. In her new book, "Three Lithuanian Europes: Nation, Europe, the EU in modern identity", she argues that the...
The Lithuanian Mint will launch a series of copies of golden coins from the times of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in November.
Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has become the biggest long-term geopolitical challenge not only to Ukraine but also to Europe at large, including Lithuania.
A march will take place in old-town Vilnius on Friday to mark the 500th anniversary of victory against Russia in the Battle of Orsha.
