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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.
Lithuania has opened a laser laboratory in Taiwan in efforts to accelerate the development of laser technology and new technologies, the Ministry of Economy and Innovation said on Monday.
The remains of Mykolas Biržiška, one of the twenty signatories of Lithuania's 1918 declaration of independence, was reburied in Vilnius on Wednesday.
A campaign is kicking off on Tuesday to invite 4 million Lithuanians around the globe to sign the national anthem on State Day, July 6.
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.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis will conduct a visit in Riga on Monday to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Lithuania's restored statehood.
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.
Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis is in hospital being treated for flue complications and will miss Friday's centenary celebrations, his son Vytautas V. Landsbergis confirmed on Thursday.
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.
An official Lithuanian account has been created on Spotify, one of the biggest online music platforms, providing an opportunity for listeners to enjoy the history of Lithuania's music over the past century.
A few bridges and other objects in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo will light up in the flag colours of yellow, green and red for Lithuania's 100-year anniversary of independence.
Vilnius is considering free public transport for passengers on Feb. 16, the centennial anniversary of Lithuania's statehood.
Germany's representatives will officially hand over the February 16 of 1918 Independence Act on restoration of Lithuania's statehood to Lithuania on Wednesday.
Lithuania's residents and historians believe that the three figures with the main contribution to the country's statehood over the past century include Jonas Basanavičius, the father of national rebirth, Supreme Council Chairman Vytautas Landsbergis and interwar president Antanas Smetona.
Seven Lithuanian climbers who conquered nameless peaks in the Tian Shan mountain range in Kyrgyzstan in August have named the peaks after Jonas Basanavičius and Algimantas Vidugiris, hoping to get official recognition of the new names as geographical names.
