List/Grid Monthly Archives: September 2014
Walking through the Vilnius streets: Where are Strumillo’s orchards?
Juozapo Strumilos’ or Joseph Strumillo’s street – this is the real name of the deserved to Vilnius botanist, fruit farmer, gardener, lawyer, social activist. The street is located on the…
Norkevičius:” The seriousness of the Polish-Lithuanian relationship begins at the academic level”
Soured in 2010-2011 Polish-Lithuanian relations began to improve in late 2012. Time shows how long this improvement will last – said to zw.lt Mindaugas Norkevičius, a doctoral candidate of political…
The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania rejected an act concerning national minorities submitted by the conservatives
The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania quashed the variant of the act on national minorities suggested by the conservatives, which for example prohibited bilingual plates. In favor of the…
EAPL delegation visited Warsaw
While visiting Warsaw, the representatives of the EAPL met, among others, with the Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Eugene Grzeszczak With an official visit to Konstancina-Jeziorna near Warsaw went nearly…
Polish bookstore on the Lithuanian-Belarusian borderline
“Everything from Ejszyszki is close to heart, yours, one own, created by work”. In the words of the song, which is the unofficial anthem of Ejszyszki, Henryk Fedorovich from Ejszyszki,…
Jews of Lithuania remember the victims of the Holocaust
Lithuania has designated 23 September as National Memorial Day for the Genocide of the Lithuanian Jews. At the time of II World War over 200 thousand of Jews, that is 90 percent of the Jewish…
Walking through the Vilnius streets : Narbutt wrote in Polish language about Lithuania
He was an unusual historian and unusual is the street bearing his name: Teodoro Narbuto g. (Theodore Narbutt). There are no buildings next to it. It combines two roundabouts –…
The conversation with the Chair of the parliamentary fraction of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania Rita Tamašunienė
Before one week, Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament) began the autumnal parliamentary session. 8-person fraction of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania will continue its work in Seimas now as an…
Polish conservators are saving the Vilnius angel
One of the most valuable monuments in Vilnius Old Rossa, located at the tomb of Iza Salmonowicz (1877-1901), with a beautiful angel – the work of the famous sculptor form…
Vilnius remembers Zemach Shabad
Zemach Shabad (Tsemakh Shabad) is a legendary Vilnius doctor, community and political activist, “Vilnius Janusz Korczak”, the prototype of doctor Ojboli from the story for children of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky…
