There is nothing more multicultural in Lithuania right now than the new library which opened in the capital of this Baltic state on 16 December. The concept is simple: all books, films and music must be about either a Jewish subject, writer or artist Films by Steven Spielberg will sit side by side with religious […]
The decision was taken: the European humanities university, created in Minsk, Belarus in 1992, packed up to join Vilnius (and democracy) in 2004. In this oasis of free education, Belarusian youth have been exiled further and further to the west. One morning in May 2009, an unexpected calm reigns over the bus station in Vilnius. […]
‘We face the typical problems that a country as young as this faces,’ says Kęstutis Kaminskas, a professor and educational advisor for the Committee on Education, Science and Culture in the Lithuanian parliament. We meet in the new building currently being extended into a press centre and conference hall. ‘We can’t change how professors think overnight. More than […]
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