Freedom Prize

Priest Julius Sasnauskas, a participant of Lithuania’s unarmed anti-Soviet resistance, publicist and former political prisoner, has been awarded the 2024 Freedom Prize.

Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) has bestowed the title of Honorary Doctor on President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. The title has been granted to him for extraordinary leadership in the fight for Ukrainian freedom, democracy, and humanist values hereby presenting the young generation with the bes...

The Lithuanian parliament voted on Thursday to award the annual Freedom Prize to Belarus' democratic opposition.

The Lithuanian Union of Journalists, the Lithuanian Society of Journalists and the family of MP Kazys Starkevicius, representing the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, have established a Hope and Freedom Prize, forth 1,000 euros, for Belarusian journalists.

Albinas Kentra-Ausra, a partisan, chronicler of the Lithuanian Atgimimas (Revival) movement and a chevalier of the Order of the Cross of Vytis, has been nominated for the annual Freedom Prize in Lithuania.

Saulius Skvernelis has announced he will participate in the presidential elections during a meeting with the local community of Rusnė. Some knew beforehand, what will happen during the prime minister’s official visit to inspect the construction work on an overpass, some didn’t, however the construct...

Nijolė Sadūnaitė, 79-year-old nun, dissident and Soviet-era political prisoner, was awarded the Freedom Prize on the Day of Freedom Defenders at a solemn ceremony at the parliament on Saturday.

Nijolė Sadūnaitė lives in a convent outside Vilnius and doesn't hear news very often, as she does not use the Internet, does not watch television and hardly listens to the radio, therefore, she only heard about the Lithuanian parliament's decision to award her with the Freedom Prize many hours after...

The Lithuanian parliament decided on Thursday to award the Freedom Prize to Nijolė Sadūnaitė, a Roman Catholic nun and former Soviet-time dissident.

Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post-independence leader, says that the modern world is being accustomed to medieval-style international relations where a small-scale nuclear war is permissible.

Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post-independence leader, and former President Valdas Adamkus were presented with the Freedom Prizes on Friday as the country marks the 26th anniversary of a bloody 1991 Soviet crackdown on its independence drive.

Lithuania's parliament has awarded the Freedom Prizes to former president Valdas Adamkus and the country's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis.

EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis said there was little difference between the nationalist outlook of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and Lithuania’s first post-independent leader, Vytautas Landsbergis.

Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post-communist head of state, received an award on Wednesday in recognition of his contribution to the country's freedom. The award was presented by several non-governmental organizations, after the Seimas snubbed Landsbergis for its annual Freedom Prize.

The Lithuanian Seimas snubbed Vytautas Landsbergis, chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania (the reconstituent Seimas) and signatory of the Independence Restoration Act, when it voted to deny him the 2015 Freedom Prize on 24 November. Now, however, the Public Council under the Commission for th...

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is also among those who believe that the Seimas should have awarded the Freedom Prize 2015 to Vytautas Landsbergis, the first head of the restored and independent Republic of Lithuania, chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania (Reconstituent Seimas), signa...

Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė believes that Vytautas Landsbergis - who was the first head of the restored and independent Republic of Lithuania, the chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania, and a signatory of the Independence Restoration Act - should have been awarded with the very first Fr...

The Seimas of Lithuania has rejected the motion to award Conservative MEP Vytautas Landsbergis, a prominent leader of Lithuania's independence movement, with a prestigious Freedom Prize.

Ethnic tension between Lithuania and Poland is a great gift to Vladimir Putin's Russia, says former Polish dissident Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief of the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. Michnik was awarded the Freedom Prize 2014 in the Lithuanian Seimas on Tuesday as Lithuania marks the Freedom Defend...