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CULTURAL CAPITALS OF EUROPE (Chicago Tribune, January 11, 2009) Added 2009-01-11 Austrian, Lithuanian cities sparkle as cultural capitals of 2009 The newly anointed Cultural Capitals of Europe for 2009 are Linz, Austria, and Vilnius, Lithuania, both a bit off the continent's prime tourist paths.
FRIENDS REUNITED (Poland Monthly / December 2008, p.50-53) Added 2008-12-31 In an interview with PM’s Ewa Boniecka, the Lithuanian ambassador to Poland, Egidijus Meilunas, talks about how strategic partnership, good neighbourhood policy and friendship between Poland and Lithuania are bearing fruit across a wide spectrum of...
AMBASSADOR GREETINGS (Lithuania today, 2008 issue 12, p.28-31) Added 2008-12-31 Christmas is a time with family, creating joyous memories and delighting in succulent food. Wherever we are, Loreta and I always seek to honour Lithuanian Christmas traditions and pass them on to our own two children, daughter Paula and son...
SĄJŪDIS – 20 YEARS ON (Lithuania today, 2008 issue 12, p.13-15) Added 2008-12-31 This year marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of Sąjūdis, the Reform Movement of Lithuania. Officially known as Lietuvos Persitvarkymo Sąjūdis, this was the political organization which led the struggle for Lithuanian independence in the...
INTERVIEW OF KESTUTIS KUDZMANAS, AMBASSADOR OF LITHUANIA TO AZERBAIJAN, WITH TREND NEWS (Azerbaijan, Baku, 2008 Dec. 18/Trend) Added 2008-12-18 Question: How do you assess current political, economic and cultural ties between Azerbaijan and Lithuania? Answer: Lithuania and Azerbaijan has held intensive political dialogue for the last two years. The mutual visits of Presidents also prove...
DEALING WITH REVISIONIST RUSSIA (The Washington Post, 13 December 2008) Added 2008-12-13 Among the foreign policy challenges facing President-elect Barack Obama is the need for a new strategy toward Russia. Moscow is a partner and competitor: We need to work with the Russians on issues such as Iran and counterterrorism, but Moscow...
LITHUANIA TO BUY SHOES FOR AFGHANS (The Baltic Times, 13/12/2008) Added 2008-12-13 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the NGO Savanoriu Centras (SC) have launched a project that will give Lithuanians the chance to help impoverished Afghani children by collecting money to buy shoes for the poor.
INTERVIEW: ACADEMIC REFUGEE (The Baltic Times, 9/12/2008) Added 2008-12-09 Dr. Anatoli Mikhailov is the rector of the European Humanities University – the Belarusian Western-thinking University that was recently expelled from the country for contradicting state ideology. Mikhailov, a professor of philosophy, sat down...
LITHUANIA ALSO PART OF A JEWISH RENAISSANCE (South African Jewish Report, 5 December 2008, Friday, Volume 12, Number 46, p.14) Added 2008-12-05 To Jews of Litvak origin in SA, the connection to Lithuania is obvious and emotional. “Invisible Bridges of Culture: Africa and Lithuania”, an exhibition of contemporary art from Lithuania, at the Rabbi Cyril Harris Community Centre in Oaklands,...
LITHUANIA FRETS AS BRUSSELS PREPARES TO SAP POWER (Financial Times, 2 December 2008) Added 2008-12-02 What one god gives, another takes away. Such is the dry humour with which Lithuanians greeted the imminent closure of the Ignalina nuclear power station, a featureless hulk rising from the snowy badlands of the frontier with Belarus and Latvia.