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During the ongoing survey organised by an international green energy company, Ignitis Renewables, to assess the feasibility of the offshore wind farm, a 70 metres long and 6 metres high sunken ship was discovered. The wreck, lying 38 metres deep, was discovered by a geophysical survey vessel Fugro F...
A commission set up by the Ministry of Culture has warned the chief of the State Language Inspectorate (VKI) for his statements referring to Polish signs in Vilnius district as “marking Poland's historical occupation territory”.
With the outbreak of World War II, Germany started a coherent and deliberate campaign of erasing Poland from the map of Europe. The Polish nation was to be deprived of its intellectual elites, identity, and sovereignty. Destruction and plundering did not spare Polish culture. Literature, music, film...
The University of Parma's Professor Guido Michelini, a well-known linguist and experts in Baltic linguistics, has passed away, Lithuania's Ministry of Education Science and Sports said on Thursday.
Просим разрешить провести бесплатный концерт на Ратушной площади в Вильнюсе. С такой просьбой столкнулся мэр столицы Литвы Ремигиюс Шимашюс и опубликовал ее на своей странице в фейсбуке. Мэр рассказал и о причине отрицательного ответа – Кремль хотел пропихнуть пропагандистский проект.
Lithuania's Ministry of Culture on Monday announced the six winners of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts.
Lithuania's government has given a green light to having its cultural attache to the US reside in New York rather than in Washington D.C.
Rolandas Kvietkauskas has been re-appointed as director of the Lithuanian Film Centre for a second four-year term, the Ministry of Culture has said.
Lithuania's Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis has urged the Municipality of Vilnius to call an emergency situation over the crumbling hill of the Gediminas Castle. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
A small group protested outside the Russian Drama Theatre in Vilnius which hosted a Baltic Pride event on Thursday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Lithuanian specialists have digitized more than 80,000 pages of documents from a pre-war Jewish research institute in order to make them available online.
The Lithuanian reader’s choice Books of the Year for 2015 have been announced with Dalia Staponkutė book of essays, "Out of the Two I Pick the Third: My Little Odyssey" taking the top award in the adult category.
A development plan for the Oldtown of Vilnius, currently being drafted by the Culture Heritage Department, has raised concerns of heritage preservationists. The plan envisages "reconstruction of historical zones" that were destroyed during World War Two, which critics say will open the door for new ...
Six synagogues in Lithuania have been included into the list of monuments protected by the state, BNS reports.
The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum presents the exhibit, Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad - In Unum - 10 Years of Investigations, from October 1 to November 22, 2015.
Before drafting a new program for preserving identity of ethnic minorities, the Lithuanian Culture Ministry plans to launch a survey of their situation.
Vilnius City Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has confirmed that he has indeed received requests from Sovetsk City Mayor Nikolay Voishchev and Russian Ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov to hand over the Green Bridge statues to Russia.
The Lithuanian ruling coalition will survive until the parliamentary elections, despite recent disagreements over deputy culture minister, says Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė of the Labour Party.
On Tuesday, the recently and controversially appointed Deputy Minister of Culture Vytautas Vigelis announced about his resignation.
Following a conversation of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis, who was instructed to sack his deputy minister Vytautas Vigelis within a week, the Labour Party's leader Valentinas Mazuronis rushed off to the Government's Office. The politician is convinced that ...
