President Gitanas Nausėda says Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė should submit her findings before he may decide whether Lithuania’s figure skater Margarita Drobiazko should be stripped of citizenship.
Grand Duke Gediminas
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US President Joe Biden arrived for bilateral talks with President Gitanas Nausėda in the Presidential Palace on Tuesday morning.
President Gitanas Nausėda met on Thursday with Jan Raczynsky, chair of the Board of the international human rights organization Memorial and active supporter of cooperation between the Memorial and the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre.
The University of Parma's Professor Guido Michelini, a well-known linguist and experts in Baltic linguistics, has passed away, Lithuania's Ministry of Education Science and Sports said on Thursday.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda awarded 34 Lithuanian and foreign nationals for their merits to Lithuania on Sunday when Lithuania marked its Independence Day.
The founding myth of Vilnius has many affinities with legends of Rome and other great cities. Though hardly historically accurate, it was necessary to legitimize the royal seat of a medieval grand duke.
On this day in 1323, Grand Duke Gediminas, the ruler of Lithuania at the time, wrote a letter that has become the first known historical mention of the name of Vilnius. This January 25th is the Lithuanian capital's 693rd birthday!
