There are still no official confirmation here but in some countries the following commercials were made public. It seems that real legend is coming.

4 July - Stockholm, 7 July - Tampere, 10 July - Kaunas, 12 July - Warsaw :)


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Today Lithuania witnessed extraordinary event - the crash of an airplane. It should be noted that the last time the crash of Lithuanian airlines plane or other airlines plane in Lithuania happened in 1973: the crash of a plane Tupolev 124 on a flight between Vilnius and Moscow which happened in Moscow oblast (it is sometimes called "doctor's crash ( Read more... )

The difference between photos is about 100 years.  Nice colorization using AI technologies by user Edmas from miestai.net. Original of photo is in Polish state archives:


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These events happened in July but details are starting to appear only now. Simply - special services of the Russian Federation tried to organize the airline crash over the Atlantic. Simply tried to explode cargo plane between Europe and North America. Or in other words - behaved like al-Qaeda, ISIS and some other infamous organizations. It also is ( Read more... )

Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT today published interesting interview with Petras Vaitiekunas, former Lithuanian foreign affairs minister (in 2006-2008), former ambassador to Belarus and Latvia, EU envoy to Ukraine. The interview is interesting but one place I decided to translate and publish. The talk cited happened in 2008:

By the way, I can ( Read more... )

Sweetpea is one of the most popular TV series this Autumn. It is not political. But one of the main personages in the series is saying the following phrase:

You're ruining lives, Julia. You're like cancer. Or climate change. Or Russia. Yeah, the world would be a better place without you. Except with Russia, at least everyone knows what a psycho ( Read more... )

Darius Maikštėnas is the head of Ignitis group - the largest electricity supplier in Lithuania. Here are few excerpts from his recent interview:

We look at energy independence and national security from a slightly different angle, and see opportunities for renewable energy to strengthen our geopolitical security in general, by strengthening ties ( Read more... )

Eight years ago, the establishment of the NATO Forward Presence Task Force in Lithuania started. The first group of about 200 German servicemen was led by young Colonel Lieutenant Christoph Huber. This officer was remembered trying to speak Lithuanian with the press on several occasions.

They were the lead team and laid the basis for later arrivals ( Read more... )

That's official: it was taken decision to send those masking nets to Ukrainian army:


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Yesterday Lithuanian border guards saw the next train that arrived from Belarus to Kena border train station:


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