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Vytautas Magnus University professor Liudas Mažylis who discovered the long-sought Lithuanian Independence Act last year is inviting researchers of countries celebrating their centennial anniversaries this year to pool their efforts for analysis of the independence declarations.
February 16 is a national holiday in Lithuania in commemoration of the signing of the Act of Independence of Lithuania on February 16, 1918 which proclaimed the restoration of the independent state of Lithuania.
Vytautas Bogušis, then a ninth-grade student, 43 years ago bought pieces of cloth for a hand-made yellow-green-red Lithuanian flag that his schoolmates raised in the Rasų Cemetery in Vilnius, the capital of the Soviet-occupied Lithuania, on the eve of Feb. 16, 1975.
Polish President Andrzej Duda and top European Union officials are coming to Vilnius on Thursday as festive events marking the centenary of Lithuania's restored statehood are kicking off across the country.
A font developed by the original of the February 16 1918 Independence Act was presented at a solemn meeting of the Lithuanian government in Kaunas on Wednesday.
A font developed by the original of the February 16 1918 Independence Act will be presented at a solemn meeting of the Lithuanian government in Kaunas on Wednesday.
Germany's representatives officially handed over the February 16 of 1918 Independence Act on restoration of Lithuania's statehood to Lithuania on Wednesday.
Germany's representatives will officially hand over the February 16 of 1918 Independence Act on restoration of Lithuania's statehood to Lithuania on Wednesday.
The foreign ministers of Lithuania and Germany will Thursday sign an agreement on handover of the February 16, 1918 Independence Act to Lithuania for five years.
Germany plans to hand the original copy of Lithuania's 1918 Act of Independence recently found in Berlin's diplomatic archive over to Lithuania for five years, diplomatic sources have confirmed to BNS.
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that conversations with Germany's government over handover of the February 16 1918 Independence Act to Lithuania are going well, downplaying the opinion stated by Germany's head archivist who said that the document could only be lend on temporary b...
The president of the German Federal Archives says that Germany could lend Lithuania the original copy of its 1918 declaration of independence recently found in Berlin for a year, but it should not hand the document over to the country.
A facsimile of Lithuania's 1918 Act of Independence on Thursday will be handed over to the Martynas Mažvydas National Library in Vilnius to be put on display.
Lithuanian and German foreign ministers agreed on Friday that an original copy of Lithuania's 1918 Act of Independence that was found this week in Berlin's diplomatic archives will be put on display in Lithuania and that the possibility of handing the document over to Vilnius will be discussed in th...
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Thursday asked his German counterpart, Sigmar Gabriel, to return an original copy of Lithuania's Act of Independence of February 16, 1918 that has been found in Berlin's diplomatic archives, to Vilnius.
Liudas Mažylis, the man who on Wednesday found what is believed to be an original copy of Lithuania's Act of Independence of 1918 in Germany's archives, is described by his colleagues and students as a professor who loves details and is a passionate collector.
Germany's Foreign Ministry on Thursday confirmed discovery of the February 16 1918 resolution of the Council of Lithuania on reestablishment of statehood, congratulating Lithuanians on the find.
Lithuanian officials have contacted German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office over an original copy of Lithuania's Act of Independence of 1918 that has been found in Berlin and are looking at how and when the document could be returned to Lithuania, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday.
The president of MG Baltic says that the business group will keep its promise to pay a million euros to anyone who finds an original copy of Lithuania's Act of Independence of 1918 if the document is returned to the country.
