Algirdas Kaušpėdas: 25 years after Sąjūdis, Lithuania exceeds expectations
The Lithuania Tribune presents an interview with the legendary Lithuanian architect and musician Algirdas Kaušpėdas conducted by Eglė Digrytė of www.15min.lt, in which Kaušpėdas talks about the...
View ArticleOpinion: Dear Icelanders, you became a part of my childhood
The Lithuania Tribune presents an essay by Jurgita Rakštelienė which she wrote for the contest ‘Write a Letter – Win a ticket to Reykjavik’ and in which she expressed her gratitude to Iceland – the...
View ArticleIceland’s recognition of Lithuania’s independence to be celebrated on 15 June
Victoria Leigh | The Lithuania Tribune A celebratory event in appreciation of Iceland’s acknowledgement of Lithuania’s Independence will be held on 15 June, 2013 at 5pm in Vilnius. Iceland Street...
View ArticleThe history of Lithuania’s oldest embassy
The Lithuanian Embassy in Washington D.C. is the oldest Lithuanian embassy abroad. It served as a symbol of freedom for all Lithuanians during the fifty years of Soviet occupation. The Embassy is also...
View ArticleBaltic Way participants invited to share memories at the Seimas
BNS Participants of the Baltic Way are invited to the Lithuanian parliament on Friday and Saturday to share their memories of the 1989 event. The participants are invited to share their personal...
View ArticleSeimas to open an exhibition of the Lithuania’s statehood documents
On 5 September 2013 at 11.30 am the documentation and photography exhibition ‘Lithuania’s Return to the World Community of Free Countries’ will open in the Exhibition Gallery of the Seimas. The...
View ArticleAustrian fire-fighters got a history lesson from Professor Vytautas Landsbergis
Ruslanas Iržikevičius | The Lithuania Tribune How more fortunate can you get? You come to a country with a tourist group, and, in addition to an enjoyable trip, you have an opportunity to listen to a...
View ArticleLinkevičius: No similarities between Lithuanian and Catalonian independence
BNS Lithuania does not compare its self-liberation from the Soviet occupation with the Catalonians’ wish to split from Spain, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius said after a...
View ArticleGrybauskaitė: Russia has learnt nothing from mistakes made 20 years ago
Imposing measures of economic pressure Russia demonstrates that it has not learnt anything from the mistakes made 20 years ago, said Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė in an interview with French...
View ArticleLithuania is commemorating Day of Freedom Defenders
BNS Today Lithuania is commemorating a 23-year anniversary of the attempted coup of 13 January 1991. On Monday morning, candles of unity will be lit in the windows of Lithuanian schools, bureaus and...
View ArticleLithuanian archbishop gets Freedom Prize and recalls anti-Soviet underground...
BNS After publishing of the chronicles of the Lithuanian Catholic Church was started during the Soviet era in 1970s, nobody expected Lithuania to be free in a few decades, said one of the publishers,...
View ArticleOpinion: Soft power for tough issues
The Lithuania Tribune presents an opinion article by Andrei Maewski, an executive search analyst, in which he analyses the acts of Russia’s soft power in Lithuania. International political influence is...
View ArticleDocumentary ‘How We Played The Revolution’ will be presented in London
A documentary about rock and freedom in the late eighties in Lithuania ‘How We Played The Revolution’ will be shown in London for the first time on 11 March 2014, the Lithuanian Embassy in the UK has...
View ArticleThe New York Times: Just like Lithuanians, Ukrainians fight for historic truth
BNS Titled by the Russian administration as ‘Fascists’, Ukrainians are fighting for historic truth, which was also the goal of Lithuanians when they liberated themselves from the Soviet occupation, The...
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