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A solemn ceremony was held in the House of Signatories in Old Town Vilnius on Sunday to inaugurate the exhibition of the February 16 1918 Independence Act brought to Lithuania from Germany.

Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis says that the current security situation in the country is worse than back when Lithuania was fighting for independence 27 years ago.

Lithuania's residents and historians believe that the three figures with the main contribution to the country's statehood over the past century include Jonas Basanavičius, the father of national rebirth, Supreme Council Chairman Vytautas Landsbergis and interwar president Antanas Smetona.

The recent assertion by the Mayor of Vilnius, Remigijus Šimašius, regarding the Lithuanian diplomat and military officer, Col. Kazys Škirpa, and the pending attempt to "recall" the dedication of the street in Vilnius in his honour, compels me to respond. I do so in the name of truth and justice. The...

Lithuania should openly look at the merits and mistakes of the interwar Polish leader, Juzef Pilsudski, Lithuania's former head of state Vytautas Landsbergis said on the 150-year anniversary of Pilsudski in Vilnius on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian parliament decided on Thursday to award the Freedom Prize to Nijolė Sadūnaitė, a Roman Catholic nun and former Soviet-time dissident.

Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first post-independence leader, has always been the first head-of-state and will always have the status, which cannot be changed by any laws or machinations, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated Vytautas Landsbergis, the country's first post-independence leader, on his 85th anniversary on Wednesday.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Thursday awarded the ministry's sign of honor, the Lithuanian Diplomacy Star, to Vytautas Landsbergis, the chairman of the country's Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas who is often titled as the first-post independence state leader.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis thinks that Lithuania's first post-Soviet leader Vytautas Landsbergis should be granted benefits that a former head of state is entitled to by law, but not the status of a president.

Vytautas Landsbergis was Lithuania's head of state when he served as the speaker of the Supreme Council–Reconstituent Seimas, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said.

Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), says that he doubts that the majority of the ruling party's lawmakers would support Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis' initiative to grant the status of a former head of state and associated guarantees to Vytautas Landsbergis...

A new attempt will be made to grant the status of a former president and associated guarantees to Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's first factual post-Soviet leader who held the post of the speaker of the Supreme Council–Reconstituent Seimas.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), are ranked as Lithuania's most influential politicians, the Delfi.lt news website reported, citing the results of two separate opinion polls.