13 June 2014 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of ambassador Stasys Lozoraitis and 2 August marked his 90th birthday. Such anniversaries are often a good time to reflect on the life and career.
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The tide of plebiscites for independence is rolling across Europe. You name it: Scotland, Crimea, Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk and then Spain’s Catalonia.
1968 metų vasarį grupės „The Beatles“ ketveriukė atvyko į Indiją „nušvitimo“ ieškoti. Po beveik penkiasdešimties metų, žymus žurnalistas, kulinaras ir keliautojas Vytaras Radzevičius, viską metęs, apimtas vidutinio amžiaus krizės, taip pat nusprendė „nušvisti“ ir irgi išvyko į Indiją. O paskui jį iš...
The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Professor Vytautas Landsbergis, the first ldeader of post-Soviet Lithuania. How should we fight against the propaganda war, long term and short term? How to convince our closest allies that we are not enemies of the free press but that we must fight propaganda here and...
Minister of Culture Šarūnas Birutis signed a law amending the criteria for cultural artifacts to be listed as heritage. From now on objects marked with Soviet or Nazi symbols will not be included in the Register of Cultural Heritage.
The Brussels administrative center says it issues documents via its electronic system only, therefore, entries will be corrected manually until a system decision is made to avoid indication of Soviet Union as the place of birth of Lithuanians.
Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office has finished the pre-trial investigation into the 13 January massacre case in which 69 people, citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, have been named suspects.
The Lithuania Tribune spoke to Professor Vytautas Landsbergis, the first leader of post-Soviet Lithuania. The 1990 Declaration of Independence was a game changer in Lithuania’s history. Many call the Independence, a floating LNG terminal, a game changer in energy. What other game changers should the...
In the last essay of the series “Putin’s Russia”, I discussed the long efforts of Yevgeny Primakov’s clan to turn Ukraine’s conflict in the direction of conditional peace rather than war by imposing certain conditions and concluding everything with a peace agreement that is so useful to Russia.
Lithuanian food producer Samsonas has decided to discontinue using the "Soviet" brand on a line of its meat products. While the decision was welcomed in Lithuania, it caused quite a stir in Russia.
The Ukrainian authorities do not want Soviet monuments to be chaotically removed in the country and therefore plan to set up a special park of Soviet monuments, similar to the one existing in Lithuania, Ukrainian Minister of Culture Yevhen Nyshchuk said in Vilnius on Thursday.
As Russia's intervention in Ukraine seems to be entering a lower-intensity stage and reports are coming in about ceasefire agreements, both international and Lithuanian media are indulging in discussions on who are the winners and the losers of the conflict.
A citizen of Switzerland was detained in Vilnius on Wednesday night for wearing clothes with Soviet symbols, the Police Department said on Thursday.
Kaunas Regional Court on Tuesday opened one more case into the murder of Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas.
The Russian request for legal assistance in the investigation of the case when Lithuanians refused to serve in the Soviet army in the early 1990s is an attempt to intimidate them, says Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius.
Attempts by Russia's law enforcement agencies to re-open criminal prosecution against Lithuanian nationals who avoided military service in the Soviet army in 1990-1991 has no legal basis, says international law expert Erika Leonaitė.
Russia's attempts to prosecute persons who refused to serve in the Soviet army is absurd, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says.
Chief advisor to the president on interior policy Virginija Budienė says that Lithuanian citizens who left or refused to serve in the Soviet army after Lithuania declared independence from the USSR in March 1990 did not commit a crime.
Russia has reopened 25-year-old cases that may lead to criminal charges against young people who refused to serve in the Soviet army in 1990-1991, shows a request for legal assistance received by the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office.
Rūta Vanagaitė’s project “The Paneriai Lullaby”, which lets you interact with Jewish culture for a day, is one of the most successful projects financed by the European Commission (EC).