Lithuania: All Saints Day & All Souls Day (Vėlinės)
A quiet, deeply spiritual national holiday. Lithuanians return to their [...]
Lithuania: Day of Restoration of Independence (Lietuvos nepriklausomybės atkūrimo diena)
Day of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania. In 1990 Lithuania [...]
Lithuania: Day of Re-establishment of the State (Lietuvos valstybės atkūrimo diena)
Marks February 16, 1918, when the Act of Independence was [...]
Lithuania: Feast of the Assumption (Žolinės)
While a major Catholic feast day reflecting Lithuania's deep Catholic [...]
Lithuania: Statehood Day (Valstybės diena)
The day commemorates the founding of the state and the [...]
Rail Baltica – a final step in the Baltic states European integration?
Rail Baltica is the largest infrastructure project the Baltic region [...]
Central-Eastern Europe – another frontier of the war between modernity and traditionalism
As I meet tourists, I keep hearing - “I did [...]
Louis Armstrong and Eastern Europe
It may come as a surprise even to devoted Jazz [...]
Suwalki corridor – a change of power dynamics in the Baltics
Lithuania and Poland are NATO and EU member states. Both [...]
Potential compromise with Moscow?
On June 18, Lithuanian railways stopped transit of EU sanctioned [...]