On March 26, 2019, the Ambassador of Finland to Lithuania HE Christer Michelsson and Mrs Ebba Michelsson, in co-operation with The Rogatchi Foundation hosted a special celebration and reception on the Humanist of the Year 2018 Award for prominent Lithuanian film director Saulius Beržinis.
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A Vilnius court has cancelled a fine of almost 1,500 euros for an organization, named Forgotten Soldiers, which installed tombstones for Soviet soldiers without permits.
It is unfortunate, but this year the organisers will face difficulties. Such hints were already bandied around by Kremlin propaganda outlets Baltnews and Sputnik in March by unnamed individuals, predicting that this year the project Misija Sibiras (Mission Siberia) will be obstructed. The threat was...
The Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department has imposed a fine of 1,500 euros on an organization named Forgotten Soldiers that has reburied Soviet soldiers in Vilnius' Antakalnis cemetery.
Diana Varnaitė, director of the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department, has proposed envisaging separate funding of maintenance of the Jewish heritage, an idea supported by Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.
The attempts to stop Lidl investments in a building in Vilnius are unacceptable, and all obstacles on the path should be removed, says Diana Varnaitė, director of the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department.
Russia's ambassador to Lithuania has failed to convince the local government of Šiauliai to leave a Soviet-era monument on the city's central square.