One of the highlights of the Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival is the malunas, a dance of circles within circles. Malunas, which means windmill, symbolizes the grinding of grain into flour, the transf… ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania – Workers in Lithuania have begun dismantling the last Soviet statues in the capital, following calls prompted by the Ukraine crisis that symbols of Soviet occupation be ...

Lithuania intends to turn away from its past. Specifically, the Ministry of Culture is proposing fines for the possession of Nazi and Soviet symbols with the intent to distribute them, according ...

Discover the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania, a poignant site representing national identity and spiritual devotion through countless crosses. Bangkok Tower Collapses During Powerful 7.7 Magnitude ...

Kaunas is a strange city. It's a mix of Art Deco buildings, pretty cobbled streets and strip clubs. In the center of Lithuania's second-largest city, with its 300,000 inhabitants, is Santakos Park.

The Lithuanian legislature, the Seimas, Tuesday passed amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Law on Assemblies to prohibit symbols associated with Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Francesca Allen’s ‘Plaukai’ documents the annual contest, which speaks to the folkloric significance of long hair in Lithuania ...

In some places, however, Soviet monuments remained. But thanks to the ongoing war in Ukraine, there are now plans to remove remaining symbols like the red star, and the hammer and sickle, said Bubnys.