Lithuania has been elected a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council for 2022-2024 during a vote held at the UN General Assembly in New York, Lithuania's Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday. 178 UN members voted for Lithuania's membership, the ministry said. Up until now, Lithuania has been an observer of the UN Human Rights...
The next Vilnius Book Fair is scheduled to take place at the Lithuanian capital's Litexpo exhibition center on February 24-27, 2022, the organizers said on Tuesday. The annual international book fair, one of the key cultural events in Lithuania, was cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event is moving to next year with...
Lithuania’s second biggest city, has won the Best European Filming Location award, public institution Kaunas IN has reported. The Location Award 2020 by the European Film Commissions Network (EUFCN) was given to the complex for helping to recreate the splendid and tumultuous reign of Empress Catherine II of Russia (Helen Mirren) in the HBO and...
The Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in central Vilnius is on Wednesday hosting the biggest forum of restorers in the Baltic states. Held every three years, it's the most important event for restorers in the Baltic states, the palace said. The event will be attended by specialists of cultural heritage, museums, libraries and archival...
The manuscripts of Constitution of 3 May 1791 and the Mutual Pledge will be exhibited at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius in October, Lithuania's Culture Ministry announced on Monday. Held to mark the 230th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of 3 May 1791 and the Mutual Pledge, the...
The annual Nations' Fair is starting in central Vilnius on Friday, organized for the 13th time already. The main goal of this fair is to introduce people to national cuisines, crafts, customs and traditions of ethnic communities living in Lithuania, the organizers say. Vilnius residents and guests will be invited to get a taste of national...
Paintings worth 8.4 million euros were brought from Denmark early in September for an exhibition in Lithuania, BTA, the insurer of the artworks, said in a press release on Friday. Forty-four paintings, the most expensive of which costs 800,000 euros, will be on display at Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum in Vilnius starting from September 30. Paintings...
The FIFA Futsal World Cup Lithuania 2021 is the 9th season, which is going to host by Lithuania and the third Futsal World Cup is hosted in Europe. This World Cup organizing for the first time in Lithuania. The 24 teams have been divided up into six groups of four teams for the tournament....
Vilnius University has gone up to a record-high 400th position in the latest QS World University Rankings 2022. This is also the highest rating ever achieved by Lithuanian universities in the global ranking of QS universities. The university ranked 423rd last year. "Being among the 400 best universities in the world is a significant achievement for...
The Lithuanian port city of Klaipeda will be able to host the Europeade, the largest festival of European folk culture, in 2022 after the coronavirus pandemic prevented it from holding the event in 2020. The International Organizing Committee of Europeade has voted in favor of allowing Klaipeda to host the festival on July 14-17, 2022,...
