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SISTER CITY CINEMA: THE LITHUANIAN FILM FESTIVAL BRINGS VISIONS OF VILNIUS TO CHICAGO (The Chicago Weekly, 22 January 2010) Added 2010-01-22 Americans have long been loath to learn foreign languages and equally unenthusiastic about subtitled films—an unfortunate trend, but by no means a hopeless one. Launched in 1960 by Mayor Richard J. Daley, Chicago’s uncommonly active Sister Cities...
"STOP TALKING SO MUCH ABOUT MIDEAST" (The Jerusalem Post, 23 December 2009) Added 2009-12-23 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas urged European diplomats this week to "stop talking too much about the Middle East" and said he believes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu "wants peace and genuinely wants a Palestinian state."
WE ARE THE BEST PLACE TO DO BUSINESS: LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER (Indo-Asian News Service, 4 December 2009) Added 2009-12-04 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas, on his first official visit to India, has said that despite being a small and young country, it is the best place for India to do business.
TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER (Balticness, autumn 2009, p.1-4) Added 2009-11-30 Interview with the Lithuanian Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr Vygaudas Ušackas
A EUROPEAN BELARUS (The European Voice, 13 October 2009) Added 2009-10-13 The foreign ministers of Italy and Lithuania argue that the anomaly of Belarus's self-isolation may slowly be ending.
LITHUANIA’S DEVELOPMENT POLICY LOOKS EAST (The Courier, September/October 2009) Added 2009-09-30 Evaldas Ignatavičius, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of development cooperation policy, says his small country has a limited bilateral development budget and a global reach is difficult. Rather, it is targeting such aid...
UNESCO (IT STAR, Vol. 7, no. 3, Autumn 2009, p. 2-3) Added 2009-09-09 In June, we contacted EU Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner (AT), Ambassador Ina Marčiulionytė (LT) and Ambassador Irina Bokova (BG), as candidates for the post of UNESCO Director General, with invitations for interviews for the Autumn 2009...
THE BALTIC WAY (The Wall Street Journal, 23 August 2009) Added 2009-08-23 The human chain 20 years ago across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania helped end communism. An entire generation has come of age since the fall of communism 20 years ago, setting the stage for the realization of the dream of a "Europe whole and...
'MINI-EUROPE' COMMEMORATES THE 'BALTIC WAY' (EurActiv.com, 18 August 2009) Added 2009-08-18 The Brussels miniature park ‘Mini-Europe’ will this Sunday (23 August) organise an event commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the “Baltic Way”, the longest ever human chain which in 1989 became a potent symbol in the...
AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY (The Irish Times, 4 August 2009) Added 2009-08-04 YOU’D NEVER sign a false confession would you? Not even if a hunched man shone a bright light in your eyes, his silhouette a giant against the tormenting walls of a deep underground bunker in Lithuania? Not if there were 40 other people in drab...