From "Hygienic Saddles" to the "Vehicle of Beauty": Discourses on the Cycling Woman from the Turn of theCentury to the 1930s in Lithuania
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Vilnius - US ice dancing star Katherine Leigh Copely has lost her bid to gain Lithuanian citizenship and thus her ability to represent Lithuania in next year's Olympics. Copley's application for Lithuanian citizenship was rejected by the Baltic state...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
“Everyone is a historian here, everyone is preoccupied arguing who Vilnius belonged to in the past, whose it should be now, and whether true Lithuanians were of Slavic or Baltic origin. It almost seems as if Lithuanian modernity was nonexistent,” writes Andrei Khrapavitski about online and offline debates in Lithuania. “I don’t know what the [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Award-winning writer renowned for thrillers such as The Rose of Tibet and The Chelsea Murders Graham Greene called Lionel Davidson, who has died aged 87, the first contemporary storyteller to have recaptured the high adventure of Rider Haggard, while Rebecca West once said he was a young Kipling. This was not hyperbole for, as a novelist, Davidson chose the international thriller form, without being...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Lithuania's economy is stabilising and the government is confident of avoiding a bail-out from the International Monetary Fund after its successful $1.5bn bond issue...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The government is confident of avoiding a bail-out from the International Monetary Fund after its successful $1.5bn bond issue last month, says Andrius Kubilius
Global Security (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The guided-missile frigate USS John L. Hall (FFG 32) recently completed a theater security cooperation (TSC) port visit to Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
RA foreign minister Edward Nalbandian met with the deputy minister of foreign affairs of Lithuania Evaldas Ignatavichus.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The foreign ministers of Russia and Lithuania, Sergei Lavrov and Vygaudas Usackas, will discuss cooperation in Moscow on Thursday.
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
VILNIUS, Lithuania - A Lithuanian lawmaker says there is no evidence that U.S. airplanes with al-Qaida suspects ever landed in the Baltic country. A recent report by ABC...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Lithuania has rotated its military contingent in Afghanistan, where the Baltic state heads NATO's peacekeeping mission to restore the Ghor province, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Lithuania has rotated its military contingent in Afghanistan, where the Baltic state heads NATO's peacekeeping mission to restore the Ghor province, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
[JURIST] Lithuanian lawmakers on Wednesday demanded an investigation into allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established a secret prison for al Qaeda suspects in the Baltic country. The Lithuanian Parliament National Security and Defense Committee said it wants the full 141-member assembly to approve the probe next week. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on Tuesday said...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Lithuanian lawmakers on Wednesday demanded an investigation into allegations that the CIA established a prison for al-Qaida suspects in the Baltic country.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The president of Lithuania called for an official investigation Tuesday into an ABC News.com exclusive report in August that the CIA housed a secret prison for al Qaeda suspects in Lithuania for more than a year beginning in 2004.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Vilnius - The Lithuanian parliament said Wednesday it would fast-track an official enquiry into whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated a secret prison near Vilnius until 2005. The decision announced by the National Security and Def...
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patrickguillard | 01/23/2009
Linz and Vilnius were chosen as European Cultural Capitales 2009. This event aims at making people from Europe closer. Those two towns will offer fantastic programmes of events and activities for the year. Linz celebrated the start of its European project with three days of festivities in the company of its visitors from near and far. On the eve of 2009, Vilnius residents and visitors witnessed a unique
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