Lithuania’s prominent composer, culture and art figure Algimantas Raudonikis passed away on Friday, 20 October, aged 89.
October202023
October092023
Next week, on 10–11 October 2023, the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities are holding the international scholarly conference ‘The Intellectual Heritage of the Jews of Vilnius’, the Vilnius city municipality said in a press release.
October032023
Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė has been re-elected as the director general of public broadcaster LRT.
October032023
Impact Day will bring more than 150 well-known and inspiring speakers to Tallinn, Põhjala factory this Thursday and Friday. Approximately 2,000 people will take part in the festival.
September252023
On Thursday evening, the annual Delfi Titans were awarded in a ceremony at the Merchants’ Club in Vilnius in recognition of the people who made the biggest difference in the past year.
September132023
Impact Day 2023, delivering the largest sustainability celebration in the Baltics, is making history as the region's first carbon-neutral festival. Taking place on October 5 and 6 at Põhjala Tehas in Tallinn, the festival is set to bring together individuals, companies, and thought leaders committed to sustainable living and environmental responsibility.
September042023
Lithuania’s men continue their unbeaten run at this year’s Basketball World Cup. On Sunday, Kazys Maksvytis’ team defeated Team USA 104:110, Lithuania’s first win against the United States since 2004 Athens Olympics.
September022023
There has been quite the debate as of late as to whether Lithuania should join many other small nations and begin to allow naturalized citizens to play on the National Team. There are arguments for and against this; I will throw all the arguments out except one which is the main reason to me why that there shouldn’t be naturalized players allowed. My one argument is the fact that the coach can’t truly inspire players when he’s speaking in horribly broken English and not fluently in his native tongue. I witnessed this firsthand today as Greece started out brilliantly then utterly imploded in the second half.
August302023
Rokas Jokubaitis has been truly coming into his own as the new leader of the Lithuanian National Basketball team! Throughout the course of group play he has been the linchpin of the squad - scoring when he needs to by snaking his way deep in the paint, but also capably dishing or kicking out to open teammates making him a vicious double threat!
August252023
On Wednesday, Lithuanian glider pilots Algirdas Šimoliūnas and Ignas Bitinaitis reached Portugal after setting off from Lithuania 12 days earlier. Although a trio of pilots started the flight in Lithuania, yet Sakalas Uždavinys could not complete the journey after a hard landing.
July192023
Across cultures and landscapes, the swamp spells crisis. It is bad nature that undoes the elementary order by mixing up soil, air, and water into a bottomless formlessness resistant to being mapped and depicted. Home only to vermin, nothing can be built or cultivated in its chaotic fecundity, which even threatens to make a mess of time itself by preserving the bodies and materials that come to rest there.
June012023
May 24th, 2023, Baku Business University (BBU) awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Baku Business University to Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Academic Affairs Centre Head Assc. Prof. Inga Juknytė-Petreikienė. She was recognized for “great contributions to the development of international relations of the university,“ BBU repesentatives noted.
May262023
President Gitanas Nausėda met on Thursday with Jan Raczynsky, chair of the Board of the international human rights organization Memorial and active supporter of cooperation between the Memorial and the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre.
May222023
Real estate development company UAB Rinktinės NT has caused public outrage and attracted criticism from politicians for cutting down a hundred-year-old oak tree in Vilnius city centre.
April252023
Results of a population survey conducted by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia show that a half (50.3%) of the population of Latvia aged 16 and over were reading books (including e-books or audio books) in 2022. The greatest proportion of people reading books was recorded among women, young people aged 16–24, and people having higher education.
March272023
On Sunday, the Golden Cross of the Stage awards were presented to theatre artists at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre on the eve of World Theatre Day.
March212023
On 21 March, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who is on a visit to Lithuania for the first time at the invitation of the prime minister, the press service of the Government said.
March192023
The Ministry of Education, Science and Sport announced on Friday it would allocate additional support for future teachers of German and French languages.
March132023
The Vilnius City Council has renamed the Literary Museum of Alexander Pushkin opened in the 1950s to the historic Markučiai Manor, the Council said in a statement.
March102023
At a solemn ceremony on 9 March, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė awarded twelve artists with the Government’s Culture and Arts Prize for their merits to Lithuanian culture and art.