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Europe’s Gender Rights Divide Remains EU’s Moral and Political Fault Line
EUToday
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June 24, 2025
31For all its lofty rhetoric about equality and fundamental rights, the European Union remains a house divided when it comes to gender, and the rights of women. From unequal pay and workplace discrimination to shrinking access to reproductive...
Belarusian activist speaks of time in prison
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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June 24, 2025
VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Siarhei Tsikhanouski, speaking a day after his release from Belarusian prison, tried to smile and joke, but struggled to hold back heavy sighs recalling what he endured behind bars. "They told me that 'You would never get...
The year 1940 in the history of Lithuania and Bessarabia, a turning point in the history of Eas
IPN
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June 24, 2025
0 Moldovan and Lithuanian researchers have addressed the historical events that occurred in 1940, during an international scientific conference, entitled “The Year 1940 in the History of Lithuania and Bessarabia”. The event, hosted by the National...
German Government and Polish Far Right Push Warsaw to Temporary Border Checks
Visegrad Insight
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July 7, 2025
Poland introduced temporary controls with both Germany and Lithuania on 7 July, under pressure from the domestic far right and in response to Berlin’s tougher migration policy. PM Donald Tusk, facing criticism from both Berlin and nationalist...
1,500 Singers Descend on Cleveland for Lithuanian Song Fest
Cool Cleveland - Ohio
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June 24, 2025
The promoter tell us that the International Lithuanian Song Festival “is the biggest event that ever was staged in Cleveland.” I imagine this could easily be disputed, but it is inarguably the largest Lithuanian event Cleveland has seen — or...
Preparing for Zero Hour: Values and Geopolitics in Latvia and Lithuania
Green European Journal
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June 24, 2025
Are values a luxury to be cast aside when your country is under threat of invasion, or is values-based politics part of building resilience? Two Baltic Green politicians whose parties have recently joined national governments discuss the...
NATPE Budapest: BBC Studios, AMC Networks Int’l Buy Cineflix Rights Lifestyle, Travel Content
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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June 23, 2025
Cineflix Rights has unveiled a raft of lifestyle and travel content sales to broadcasters, including BBC Studios and AMC Networks International, across the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region on the eve of NATPE Budapest 2025. Financial...
Is Warsaw One of Europe's Most Exciting Cities?
Town and Country Magazine
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July 7, 2025
Above: Warsaw's gorgeously reconstructed Old Town and, in its rising downtown, the new museum of modern art, by the New York–based architect Thomas Phifer. “You’re going to hate it,” a friend in Warsaw told me last November, as I headed out one...
Why children from wealthy families are less stressed and live longer
Pulse
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June 23, 2025
A new study by researchers at the Imperial College London has revealed that children born to wealthy families do not have a "biological disadvantage" unlike kids born to low-income homes.They found that low-income kids produce up to 23% more...
Naturalist Selemonas Paltanavičius Received the President Valdas Adamkus Prize for Long-Standing Educational Work
The Baltic Times
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In a ceremony at the Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) Botanical Garden on 5 June, World Environment Day, the Environmental Prize of Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library-Museum and Dana Gedvila Fund was awarded to naturalist Selemonas Paltanavičius....
Lithuanian MP Andrius Bagdonas: 'In government, I was able to implement concrete things. In opposition, I have to fight more for principles'
The Baltic Times
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As a resident of the picturesque Neringa municipality, which borders Russia on the coast of the Baltic Sea, Andrius Bagdonas, a Lithuanian parliamentarian representing the Liberal Movement, has primarily focused on the interests of Neringa and...
Culture Fifth graders write — Why is Abraham Cahan, founder of the Forward, worth celebrating? By Hannah Feuer 4 min read
Forward
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June 16, 2025
Abraham Cahan, founder of the Forward. Photo by New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer – Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division By Hannah Feuer June 16, 2025 Abraham Cahan may have founded the publication you’re...
IPN | Cultural agenda | June 23
IPN
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June 23, 2025
Sovereignty Day was established in 1990 with the adoption of the Declaration of Sovereignty. It was a fundamental act that marked the beginning of the road towards independence, democracy and the consolidation of the rule of law. The document was...
Poland starts spot checks at German border
Deutsche Welle
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July 7, 2025
Authorities in Poland on Monday began carrying out random checks at 52 border crossings at the country's border with Germany in a move contrary to the spirit of the European Union's visa-free Schengen zone. The move comes afterstricter German...
Freed Belarusian opposition activist Siarhei Tsikhanouski: I absolutely support Ukraine and Zelenskyy
Ukrainska Pravda
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Siarhei Tsikhanouski at a press conference on 22 June. Photo: Nasha Niva Belarusian opposition activist Siarhei Tsikhanouski, who was released on 21 June, has declared his full support for Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Source:...
Belarus releases activists after US visit
Taipei Times
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June 22, 2025
Belarus freed top opposition figure Sergei Tikhanovsky and more than a dozen other political prisoners on Saturday following an appeal from the White House, Minsk said, a sign of warming ties between Washington and Belarus-ally Moscow. The release...
Belarus activist imprisoned after trying to run for president released after serving 5 years
CBC/Radio-Canada
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June 22, 2025
Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a leading Belarus opposition figure, was freed on Saturday after more than five years in prison, in the most significant move so far by President Alexander Lukashenko to try to ease his isolation from the West. The...
Nico Hulkenberg to give F1 trophy to his daughter for one key reason
GPFans
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July 7, 2025
Nico Hulkenberg has revealed he will give his British Grand Prix trophy to his daughter after his first F1 podium at Silverstone. The German driver has competed in F1 since 2010 and finally, after 239 race starts, managed to step onto the podium...
India Untold: The Jewish woman who linked India, Israel and Lithuania through Rabindranath Tagore
Asianet Newsable
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June 21, 2025
Schlomith Flaum, a Jewish educator from Lithuania, spent two years in Santiniketan in the 1920s. Deeply influenced by Tagore, she became his informal ambassador and helped connect India, Israel, and Lithuania through her writings. Schlomith Frieda...
Belarus frees 14 opposition activists after Kellogg’s visit
The Gazette - Colorado
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko released more than a dozen political prisoners, including the husband of a top opposition leader, after meeting with U.S. special presidential envoy General Keith Kellogg in Minsk. Fourteen captives,...