Los Angeles

Chicago's 'Cloud', gathering place for annual Lithuanian National Anthem singing Photo Ludo Segers
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Chicago’s Consulate General moving to new premises in Lithuanian diaspora capital

August 31, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

Sitting on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago is an important transport, financial and cultural hub. It hosts world-class universities, world-class museums and a famous opera and music scene that make for a fascinating and vibrant place to live and work. The city had to reinvent itself several times, never more dramatically as after the great fire in 1871. Chicago is also known as the centre of the Lithuanian community in the United States. […]

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Foreign affairs

Lithuanian consulate in LA establishment in final stage

January 19, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuania will establish a consulate general in Los Angeles, making it the country’s first consulate general in the West Coast of the United States. […]

Lithuanian Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis questioning the funding and a strategy to fight Russian propaganda at UABA meeting. Photo Ludo Segers
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis: We do not invest in our relations with the United States

December 5, 2014 www.lrt.lt 0

Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America Žygimantas Pavilionis thinks that the US administration under President Barack Obama has been naive in wishing to “reset” relations with Russia, but this is the trap that every new president falls into. He hopes, however, that Obama’s successor – be it Hillary Clinton or someone else – will have a better grasp on geopolitical realities of Eastern Europe. […]