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Arunas Gumuliauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary Commission for the Cause of Freedom and the National Historical Memory, has proposed calling 2021 the year of Tatar history and culture in Lithuania.

The Lithuanian Tatar community is the oldest ethnic group living in Lithuania, having settled in the country when it was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century. They have had a profound influence on Lithuania’s history, language and food.

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.

The Lithuanian government agreed on priority issues the country will raise during its term at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Executive Council. These will include the safety of reporters and the rights of the Crimean Tatar community, according to approv...

The Lithuanian Tatar community has offered to help the country's government with the integration of refugees to be resettled in Lithuania. Lithuania's Tatars also call on people not to be afraid of Muslims and not to identify them with extremist groups.

Mensaidas Bairaševskis, a Lithuanian Tatar journalist and public figure who cherished Tatar culture and history, has passed away at the age of 91.

The following is a statement of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 and current measures applied by the Ukrainian Government for protection of rights of the deported nations.

Lithuania is in a perfect position to irritate Russia enough to force Moscow out its current misinformation offensive into the defensive, says J. Michael Waller, an American expert on information warfare. In an interview with DELFI, he shares some tips how even a country as small as Lithuania could ...

On 27 April in New York, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, met with Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, who is participating in the Fourteenth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII).

Sekmadienį Kauno „Žalgirio“ areną apguls užsieniečių šonaslidininkų desantas. „Arena Motor Show“ organizatoriams atskleidus dalyvių sąrašo nuotrupas jau aišku, jog šios varžybos nebus lengvos niekam.

Russia, China, Venezuela and Angola ignored the recent informal UN Security Council meeting, organized by Lithuania, on the human rights situation in Crimea which was annexed by Russia a year ago.

The UN Security Council is holding a closed-door meeting on Crimea, initiated by Lithuania, later on Thursday. Russia, which annexed the Ukrainian region a year ago, is reportedly boycotting the meeting.

A year ago, the Kremlin helped stage an illegal and illegitimate “referendum” in Crimea that culminated in Russia annexing Crimea from Ukraine, redrawing the map of Europe by force, and deepening the burgeoning crisis in east Ukraine.

Lithuania strongly supports Ukraine's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, the Foreign Ministry stated on Thursday.

On Lithuania's initiative, the foreign ministers of eight countries on Thursday met with Mustafa Dzhemilev, leader of Crimean Tatars, and Andrey Yurov, head of the Ukrainian-Russian human rights mission in Crimea, in Switzerland.

Ukraine will never accept the loss of Crimea. Valery Zhovtenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Lithuania, said in the exclusive interview to ELTA news agency that only negotiation measures would be used to solve the issue of Crimea. In case it fails, the issue should be t...

The historic roots of the current 3200-member Tatar community in Lithuania date back to the 14th century, when the rulers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania fostered trade with the Mongols’ powerful Golden Horde. The ensuing ages have swept away the Duchy and Horde, but for a tiny group of the merchant...