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Social Democrat MP Birutė Vėsaitė has shocked the prime minister and her party colleagues by posting comments on Facebook supporting Algirdas Paleckis and saying that the Left needed him, after he announced he was leaving the Socialist People‘s Front.
Despite the inclement weather, Lithuanians living in London met at Parsloes park, Dagenham on the morning of Saturday 9th January for a commerorative run to mark the historic events of January 13. The pouring rain did not have any effect on the people or on the joyful atmosphere.
For the third year running over 150 Lithuanians and their friends living in Belgium participated in the commemorative run “The Road of Life and Death“ in Brussels. The tribute run stood out this year for the unusually high number of EU and NATO representatives who joined the commemoration.
In every country, in every nation, there are days and hours when its will, its unity and courage is tested. The destiny of the whole community is defined at these moments. Those moments reveal what each person is willing to give up for the sake of others, for the sake of freedom, for the sake of ind...
The television tower in Georgian capital Tbilisi was lit in the yellow green and red of the Lithuanian flag on Wednesday evening to honour Lithuanian freedom defenders.
Lithuania's diplomatic consulates abroad invited Lithuanians and friends of Lithuania to honour the 25th anniversary of the January 13, 1991, events on Wednesday.
Former KGB officer Mikhail Golovatov, who is a suspect in the January 13, 1991, massacre in Lithuania, has set up a fund to help other suspects in the case, according to MP Artūras Paulausas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee.
Western media reacted to the events of January 1991 in Lithuania cautiously at the time. Almost all the foreign media that covered the events of January 13 condemned the Soviet aggression and respected Lithuania's fight for freedom.
Praėjo daugiau kaip dešimtmetis nuo serialo „Friends“ („Draugai“) pabaigos. Tačiau dabar aktorių komanda - Jennifer Aniston, Mattas LeBlancas, Courteney Cox, Davidas Schwimmeris, Lisa Kudrow ir Matthew Perry – vėl susiburs specialiai televizijos laidai, kurios metu bus pagerbtas serialo režisierius ...
Presidents of Georgia, Ukraine and Estonia have congratulated Lithuania on January 13, when the country celebrates the 25th anniversary since it defended its independence from Soviet forces.
Linas Muliolis was your average young Lithuanian born in the USA. The son of World War II refugees, Linas grew up in Cleveland's Lithuanian community. In January 1991, he was just a month away from turning 21 years old and was in Vilnius during the historic January 13 events.
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post-communist head of state, received an award on Wednesday in recognition of his contribution to the country's freedom. The award was presented by several non-governmental organizations, after the Seimas snubbed Landsbergis for its annual Freedom Prize.
As Lithuania marks the 25th anniversary of the tragic events of 13 January 1991 and Freedom Defenders Day, President Dalia Grybauskaitė has emphasised that a quarter of a century ago Lithuania achieved one of its biggest victories which also was an unforgettable historic lesson demonstrating that in...
The day of the Defenders of Freedom was commemorated in Lithuania on Tuesday to honour January 13, 1991, the anniversary of the defenders of Lithuanian freedom and the victims of Soviet aggression. Bonfires were burning all around Lithuania as a reminder of the day when the country’s freedom was def...
Vytautas Landsbergis, the first head of state of Lithuania after secession from the Soviet Union in 1990, has caused minor controversy by refusing to participate in January 13 commemoration events in parliament.
On the evening of 13 January 1991, journalist Eglė Bučelytė was broadcasting from the Lithuanian Radio and Television studio in Vilnius when Soviet paratroopers broke into the building to cut off her live broadcast. With the approach of that significant day's 25th anniversary, Bučelytė spoke to Delf...
Lithuanians all over the world stand in solidarity on the 25th anniversary commemoration of January 1991 events.
“Sometimes I think, how come we weren't a least bit afraid – even for my husband, who was a Soviet army conscript at the time?” Odeta Barkauskienė, a factory worker at the time of the turbulent events of January 1991, remembers her spontaneous decision to join civil guards of a broadcasting station ...
Three Klaipėda City councilmen remember January 13, 1991 - the memories don’t fade.
Every January, Lithuanians participate in an annual winter run called “Gyvybės ir Mirties Keliu“ (The Path of Life and Death) to commemorate the people that died in Lithuania during the events of 13 January, 1991. This tradition has spread throughout the Lithuanian diaspora, and even the Lithuanian ...
