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Lithuanian Ambassador Rasa Jankauskaite delivers an address at Sammy Marks Museum.

Lithuania celebrates 34 years of independence 

On 11 March 1990, 50 years of Soviet occupation came to an end

Christmas on a budget for austerity-struck Europeans

Europe’s bizarre rules for Covid vaccine passes

Here are some of the more puzzling rules as Europeans settle for another winter holiday season overshadowed by the pandemic threat

US President Joe Biden. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Understanding Biden’s dilemma in Ukraine

Flanked by divided NATO allies, the US walks a tightrope over a potential third world war

Homer Simpson’s beer falls foul of Lithuanian watchdog

A Lithuanian company says it has frozen publication of the local version of <em>The Simpsons</em> comic after a fine for advertising Duff beer.

Exposure claims eight lives in Poland, two in Lithuania

Ten people have died in Poland and Lithuania as temperatures fell drastically across Central Europe in the passed week.

Defunct Soviet missile base offers glimpse of Cold War

Deep beneath a forest in western Lithuania, visitors can step back in time to the Cold War arms race.

Rugby strip show caught on video

The Austrian national rugby team tried to get over their 48-0 defeat by Lithuania by staging a mass striptease in the capital Vilnius late on Saturday, only to find they had been…

Lithuania’s government collapses in acrimony

Lithuania’s government fell apart on Wednesday after Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas and his whole Cabinet announced their resignation following the defection of the largest…

Woman (93) brings robber (25) to his knees

Two thieves who tried to rob two elderly women in the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda, thinking they were easy prey, got more than they bargained for when the elder of the two…

Deep-freeze record-breakers awarded

A Lithuanian brother and sister who spent almost three days frozen in a block of ice have been rewarded for their "brave" feat by the government, a television report said on…

One spectator killed, nine injured at rally in Lithuania

Organisers of the Rally of Visaginas on defended themselves on Monday, saying safety precautions were adequate for the weekend event despite a crash which killed one bystander…

Guards call time on hooch pipeline

For years, pipelines from the former Soviet Union have shipped the prosaic necessities of oil and gas to western Europe. But now smugglers have developed their own pipeline…