At the Sundance Film Festival, the Best Director Award went to Lithuanian Marija Kavtaradze

After receiving the award, Kavtaradze admitted: “It’s still hard to believe that the first showing of the film to the world is so successful. I am grateful to the whole team and to each one individually for this joint creative journey. The next stage has begun – the film meets the audience. It is incredible … Read more

“The forgotten dead”: They die in the forest between Belarus and Lithuania – they can stay there for a long time

Sienos Grupe, a Lithuanian humanitarian organization that actively works to save lives along the border with neighboring Belarus, is on a list of about 30 people who have lost contact with their family members as they embarked on the journey into Western Europe. The organization is working hard to locate their missing family member, and … Read more

A gas pipeline connecting Lithuania and Latvia exploded

A gas pipeline connecting Lithuania and Latvia exploded today, Reuters and TASS reported, citing Lithuanian gas operator Amber Grid. It is a main gas pipeline in the Pasvala region, in Northern Lithuania. Residents of one village have been evacuated, announced the head of the regional administration, Povilas Balciunas. He said that there were no casualties … Read more

Explosion and fire damages gas pipeline between Lithuania and Latvia

Fomocap NOS News•today, 20:12•Amended today, 20:44 A gas pipeline between Lithuania and Latvia has caught fire after an explosion, Lithuanian gas transport company Amber Grid reports. Lithuanian public TV channel LRT has footage of the pipe fire in Panevezys district in northern Lithuania. The gas supply through the pipeline was shut off and the fire … Read more

The deputy speaker of the Lithuanian parliament urges public naming of companies that continue to cooperate with Russia

“I believe we have reached a situation where it is necessary to make public the names of companies that are actively continuing to trade,” he told Žiniu radijas news station. “I think our society and its position on what is happening in Ukraine has matured,” he explained. Mazuronis expressed confidence that official sanctions against such … Read more

Corner: electricity support to Ukraine in winter, Eastern European countries hold the key | Reuters

Vilnius/Warsaw (Reuters) – A giant transformer built in Ukraine in the 1980s and now disused is being dusted off and ready to go here in Lithuania. He will probably go to Romania in the next few weeks and from there go home to Ukraine. On December 21, a gigantic transformer, built in Ukraine in 1980 … Read more

“I was convicted, even though I wasn’t even heard.” The Lithuanian opera singer apologizes for his performance in Minsk and promises to explain the reasons

“First of all I want to apologize to everyone and ask for forgiveness for this situation. Secondly, I promise that I will definitely write down all my thoughts, motives and reasons, but a little later,” the tenor wrote on the social network ” Facebook” on Tuesday. He insisted that he wanted “everyone to talk.” “Because … Read more

The legendary rock group “Scorpions” will perform in Lithuania

According to the organizers of the concert, the “Scorpions” have visited the Baltic countries several times and will return to Lithuania after a seven-year break. The rock band’s previous performance was also held at the “Žalgiris” arena in 2016, gathering a large group of fans from both Lithuania and Latvia. In the new concert tour … Read more

French President Macron proposes ‘security’ for Russia, Ukraine protests | Reuters

Ukraine has been criticized for saying Western powers should consider Russia’s security needs if Russia agrees to talks to end the war in Ukraine, and the Baltics criticized all at once. FILE PHOTO: Washington, DC, June 1, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein [4日 ロイター] – Criticized French President Emmanuel Macron’s comment that Western countries should consider Russia’s … Read more

Ukraine has announced a boycott of work in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly / GORDON

“The Ukrainian delegation was forced to boycott the work in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly until this international organization can form its attitude to the participation of Russians – propagandists and representatives of a terrorist state, a criminal state “, he wrote. According to Poturaev, since there was not even a decision to suspend the powers … Read more