Lithuania News News Lithuania » Culture: Upcycling History: How Lithuania Is Reclaiming Cultural Spotlight
Good things come in small packages. This adage has withstood the test of time beyond jewelry marketing. The latest fascinating cultural and geopolitical case study is Lithuania. The Baltic nation of 2 ...
News Lithuania » Culture: Lithuania - 10 Culture Shocks of Visiting Lithuania
Are you thinking about visiting Lithuania and not sure what to expect? Well here we go through some of the typical culture shocks travelers have when they visit Lithuania. From their obsession with ...
News Lithuania » Culture: Lithuanian arts community protests controversial takeover of culture ministry
Protesters across Lithuania on Sunday called for the defence of culture, democracy and freedom of speech following the ruling coalition's decision to hand over the culture ministry to Dawn of Nemunas ...
News Lithuania » Culture: Lithuanian club helps keep cultural traditions alive
From the first immigrants to the third generation, ethnic groups sometimes lose touch with their identities in the quest for Americanization. But St. Petersburg's Lithuanian community has maintained ...
News Lithuania » Culture: Lithuania: A History by Richard Butterwick - Meticulous chronicle explains so much
Any Irish reader who ploughs through Richard Butterwick’s sombre, meticulous and authoritative history of Lithuania will be struck by the similarities with this country. Those parallels, however, ...
News Lithuania » Culture: Lithuania’s Song Celebration marks a century of music, culture and unity
The Lithuanian Song Celebration brings together thousands of performers, from ensembles to conductors, often decked out in traditional dress. Monocle travels to the Baltic state for the centenary ...
News Lithuania » Culture: Who Are We: Lithuanian Americans strive to connect to culture through language, community
When I am with my family in public, we are often asked what language we are speaking, or where we are from. The most common guesses are Russian, Polish or Latvian – none of which are correct. Growing ...
News Lithuania » Culture: Mass. man keeps Lithuanian culture alive
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) - In Lithuania, the last country in Europe to adopt Christianity in the 1430s, the summer solstice celebration from ancient times has kept a strong place in the national culture.
News Lithuania » Culture: A Cultural Casualty of the War in Ukraine: ‘The Nutcracker’
Lithuania’s national opera house had stopped showing Tchaikovsky’s 1892 masterpiece in solidarity with Ukraine over the war with Russia. Then a new minister expressed fondness for the Russian composer ...
News Lithuania » Culture: Lithuania And Japan Deepen Cultural Ties With New National Museum Partnership
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 20. Between August 19th and the 25th, Šarūnas Birutis, the Acting Minister of Culture of Lithuania, will be visiting Japan with Rūta Kačkute, the ...
News Lithuania » Culture: Digging documented near privately owned mass grave of Jews in Lithuania
The Ministry of Culture in 2017 had promised to take over and prevent the sale of the final resting place of 1,159 Holocaust victims murdered in Veliucionys. (JTA) — Construction was documented near a ...
News Lithuania » Culture: Lithuanian president sacks culture minister who did not know whether Crimea is Ukrainian or Russian
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has signed a decree dismissing Culture Minister Ignotas Adomavičius, who refused to answer a question about the legal status of Ukrainian Crimea, which is ...