This page presents the Lithuanian news, including the news of Lithuanian business, political and cultural news of Lithuania, and the announcements of different events as well, such as: festivals, holidays, theatrical premières and sport competitions.
The festival of Thomas Mann arts in Nida
The International festival of Thomas Mann arts will be held in Nida in the end of July. It is one of the most popular and significant actions of a summer cultural life in Nida. The festival attracts both citizens of Lithuania, and foreign visitors with it
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The National gallery comes back to Vilnius
The National art gallery (Nacionalin dails galerija) comes back to Vilnius again. Solemn ceremony of its opening takes place on the 20th of June. In this new gallery the collection of arts of the XX and XXI centuries will be presented.
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In hotels and restaurants of Vilnius there will be no electricity
Since the 11th of June, hotels and restaurants of Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, will start to hold the actions of protest against increase in the VAT rate up to 19.
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The first female president of Lithuania
On Sunday, on the 17th of May the presidential election in Lithuania have been over, in which the former Minister of Finance of the Lithuanian republic, Dalia Grybauskaite, has come off with flying colors. She has been standing as an independent candidate
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Sailing regatta The Tall Ships' Races 2009 will come to the end this year in Klaiped
For the first time Klaipeda will accept one of the stages of international sailing regatta The Tall Ships' Races 2009. Here will be held the final stage and celebrating on the occasion of the Regatta finishing off
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The statistics of tourism in Lithuania for 2008
The year 2008 for tourist industry of Lithuania was successful enough. As the preliminary statistics of the Statistics Department of Lithuania reflects, the hotels and tourist manors of Lithuania have accepted 2,7 per cent more people, than it was in 2007
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This year the holiday will be held since the 7th of March till the 8th of March 2009. Kaziukas is similar to many mass bally show processions of the Europe; however in Lithuania taking into consideration the local temperament and weather conditions they a
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This spring the Vilnius center of the tourist information will let out a special discount card - “A card of the visitor”. This card allows to use free of charge public transport in Vilnius, to visit museums and exhibitions free of charge, to receive disco
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In the city of Palanga, on the 15th of February, a traditional holiday “The Palangian smelt 2009” takes place for the sixth time. A smelt is a small fish from salmon blood line, silvery color and its taste reminds a fresh cucumber very much. In Lithuania
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We are glad to inform you, that our project in addition to on-line booking of village halls and flats has started new service of on-line reservation of accommodations in hotels of various Lithuanian cities: Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Palanga and others. O
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According to the Freedom House rating Lithuania is considered to be free country
Such conclusion can be made, having studied an annual rating of international organization Freedom House which it has recently published. Lithuania has received the maximal possible estimation: 1 point (from 7)
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Curonian Spit in the second tour of competition on a rank of a natural wonder of the world
Curonian Spit, the general sight of Lithuania and the Kaliningrad region, has passed into the second tour of the international competition "New 7 wonders of the world". The project has been organized in 2007 by the noncommercial fund "New 7 wonders of the
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The exhibitions devoted to the Cultural capitals of Europe
Within the framework of the project “Vilnius – the Cultural capital of Europe” 11 exhibitions in Vilnius it will be organized representing 11 Cultural capitals of Europe, including not only the former capitals, but also the coming ones. Exhibitions will b
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Exhibition of the paintings by Niko Pirosmani
Since the 31st of December and till May in Vilnius will be held an exhibition of paintings of the well known Georgian artist, Niko Pirosmani. 35 pictures have already arrived to the capital on the 23rd of December and now they are in the Vilnius picture g
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New Year's and Christmas actions in Vilnius
The 25th of December is the time when the Christmas vacations begin, and at this time Vilnius is more than ever full of tourists. The lights on the Town house and the Cathedral squares were ignited at the very beginning of December, but the highest fur-tr
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Lithuania is going to involve workers from the Eastern European countries
Due to great outflow of a labor on the West, Lithuania is going to involve the qualified labor from the countries, which are not the members of EU. Thus preference will be given to highly experienced workers from the former Soviet republics: Ukraine, Bela
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New Years Eve in Vilnius has always attracted a lot of tourists who have been gathering in the capital of Lithuania at that time. Every year a lot of events are organized for the city-folk and for visitors of the capital. But this New Years Eve promises t
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Vilnius will be the cultural capital of the Europe in 2009
Vilnius is honored to be the cultural capital of the Europe of the year 2009. The European commission project “The cultural capital of the Europe” has been existed since 1985. Its initiator was a Greek minister of culture, Melina Merkuria by name.
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Lithuania has been accepted to the International Cheese-makers’ Federation
The Lithuanian cheese has officially recognized all over the world. International Cheese-makers’ Federation has decided to accept Lithuania as its participant. The number of the Federation participants since this moment counts 55 countries. Lithuania is w
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The Lithuanians may travel to the USA visa-free
Lithuania and the USA have finished signing a package of documents which gives to citizens of Lithuania the right to travel to the USA visa-free. Last agreement from this package, providing cooperation between the countries in sphere of prevention and str
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