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“Why should Paksas be elected? Because there is no one better,” the presidential candidate Rolandas Paksas said in late ...

Lithuania is celebrating a 20-year anniversary of its membership in NATO, with events planned in Vilnius and other towns...

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„I continue to believe in all the principles I have declared and pursue them with consistency, energy and health. It is a challenging job. But when you see the sometimes-modest results after those difficult days and challenges, that is the greatest joy I can experience in my life as a human being.

What Napoleon saw and did in Lithuania – ‘these Poles aren’t like in Warsaw’ 22 Andrius Balčiūnas, LRT.lt2021.05.05 17:45 Napoleons retreat from Moscow via Vilnius. Painting by Jan Damel (1812–1820) / Lietuvos dailės muziejus/Wikimedia During his 1812 Russian campaign, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte famously crossed Lithuania and spent some time socialising with the high society in Vilnius and Kaunas. The time is still remembered as the ‘French period’. Napoleon died on this...