The speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Saulius Skvernalis is enraged by the Russian speech on the streets of Vilnius. He suggested speaking only Lithuanian in the capital of the Baltic Limitrof.

For nearly 40 years, daring smugglers transported nearly 40,000 Lithuanian-language books into the nation each year when it was forbidden under Russian rule. Following the gentle bends of the ...

VILNIUS - Lithuania and Ireland, at different times, experienced significant emigration due to economic hardships, yet both have managed to maintain strong ties with their respective diasporas, ...

They benefited from Lithuanian language courses and employment subsidies. This misallocation led to an estimated financial loss of over €1 million, which Lithuania will now have to repay to the EU.

The authorities of the Lithuanian capital announced that primary school students in Polish- and Russian—speaking schools will ...

Your comments 1 James Lamond from Lanarkshire - 10 February 2004 "I am trying to trace my grandfather who was a Lithuanian who lived in Leven, Fife. I have very little information on him but can ...

“The Russian language is everywhere again,” said Darius Kuolys, a linguist at the University of Vilnius and a former Lithuanian culture minister. “To some Lithuanians, this has come as a ...

The book questions the existence of the Lithuanian language and the very statehood of modern-day Lithuania. Earlier this week, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys called the monograph a tool ...

When the Lithuanian language ban was lifted in 1904, Juozas Masiulis, one of the prominent book smugglers, opened his own book store in the town of Panevezys.