Without the EU, I would not have been employed by Vilnius Municipality.Continue Reading →
“Thank you, Lithuanians, for this hill of crosses which testifies to the nations of Europe, and to the whole world, the faith of the people of this land.”Continue Reading →
For Lithuanians, forests were and are sacred places, with some venerable groves being even more sacred than others.Continue Reading →
"Kaunas during its famous ‘Golden Age’ between the wars was very much a Litvak city. "Continue Reading →
“You, obviously, have got to play the dissident. You Lithuanian-Americans were all dissidents to the Soviets.”Continue Reading →
Since last summer, the 50mm Vilnius blog has carried a daily photo of Lithuania's beautiful capital, showing one of its many different sides...Continue Reading →
For almost half a century, my grandfather stubbornly maintained the New York Consulate of prewar independent Lithuania in a cramped rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.Continue Reading →
The most remarkable thing about these long forgotten heroes of Lithuanian history is their identity.Continue Reading →
Anatol Lieven was the only Western journalist permanently stationed in the Baltic states during the most dramatic years of their struggle for independence.Continue Reading →
