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LITHUANIA'S POSITION (The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 19, 2008) Added 2008-08-19 Lithuania's position. Sir, - The Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania would like to draw your attention to the Lithuanian leaders' position concerning any expression of anti-Semitism ("Yad Vashem blasts Lithuania for Holocaust revisionism,...
EU-RUSSIA 'BUSINESS AS USUAL' IMPOSSIBLE, LITHUANIA SAYS (EUobserver.com. 19.08.2008) Added 2008-08-19 EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU should consider diplomatic sanctions against Russia and speed up Georgia and Ukraine's EU and NATO integration to show Moscow that "muscle-flexing" does not work, Lithuanian foreign minister, Petras Vaitiekunas, said...
HOW MANY BALTIC STATES? (Lithuania in the World, Vol. 16, July-August, 2008, p. 4-7) Added 2008-08-14 The expansion of Cooperation between countries of the Baltic rim is set to continue “The location of the Baltic is in fact more a question of awareness than of geography, but that awareness has to be guided and educated …” wrote the English...
STUDY ABROAD! DESTINATION: VILNIUS (City Paper, No. 110, 2008) Added 2008-07-17 Foreign students, leaving their native countries to study abroad in Lithuania have become an increasingly visible feature of the educational landscape in Vilnius, as more and more students find themselves drawn to the Lithuanian capital’s exotic...
AMBASSADOR JOHN CLOUD – LEARNING LITHUANIA, AND AMERICA THE PLENTIFUL (Lithuania today, 2008 issue 05, p.38-40, 41) Added 2008-07-04 Ambassador John Cloud has been in Lithuania for just under two years now, and in that time he has become known as one of the hardest working and best informed ambassadors in Vilnius. While often visible at official functions in Vilnius, he is...
DOES LITHUANIA MATTER IN THE WORLD? (Lithuanian Business Review 2008 No.3 June-July p.16-17) Added 2008-07-01 While visiting New York in 1990, I met a lot of people who knew very well where Lithuania was and why “Save Lithuania” posters could be seen on the streets and subways. The first country that announced its will to regain freedom from Soviet...
H.E. THE AMBASSADOR OF PORTUGAL MR ANTÓNIO TÂNGER CORRÊA AND AMBASSADOR OF LITHUANIA (Lithuania today, 2008. 03/04, p.44-45, 47) Added 2008-06-30 Ambassador Corrêa is a career diplomat who joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1978. He has served in China, Canada and India before undertaking a number of postings around the Balkans, including his first post as Ambassador to Yugoslavia,...
CHINA – A NEW COUNTRY (Jūra●Mope●Sea, Nr.3 (50), 2008) Added 2008-06-11 Confucius has taught the Chinese people to seek for the prosperity themselvesChina is an old country and a new one at the same time. Namely in this way I would define the fourth big country of the world, having spent there a year and a half.
THE CASE AGAINST JOHN LENNON (The Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2008; p. A15) Added 2008-06-10 This month is the 20th anniversary of the founding of Sajudis, one of the most consequential national liberation movements of the 20th century. Here's betting that you've either never heard of it or, if you have, that you've long since forgotten...
THE ROADS TO INDEPENDENCE (Lithuania in the World, No 2, 2008, p. 4-7) Added 2008-05-30 Maintaining the integrity of the nation state has been a long and continuing process The three Baltic States, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, declared their wish to be independent almost at the same time in 1918, when at the end of the First World...