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Lithuania, rally for Ukraine-Anniversary full scale Russian war

Lithuania, rally for Ukraine-Anniversary full scale Russian war

Two years after the full-scale Russian attack on Ukraine, Lithuania rallied to shout loud that support for the attacked country must not wane. But it must continue stronger than ever. WATCH THE VIDEO Many events took place in all Lithuanian

Marina Macrì 25 February 202425 February 2024 Lithuanian Stories, News No Comments Read more

Žemaitis and Resistance, Vaitkevičius: everyone can defend their country

Žemaitis and Resistance, Vaitkevičius: everyone can defend their country

Jonas Žemaitis was a wise and authoritative commander who succeeded in uniting all those who were fighting against the Soviet occupation. Vykintas Vaitkevičius, archaeologist, historian and expert on Baltic culture, is convinced of this. He is a professor and researcher

Marina Macrì 14 November 202314 November 2023 Lithuanian Stories, News No Comments Read more

Kuzmickienė: Žemaitis and resistance in our hearts

Kuzmickienė: Žemaitis and resistance in our hearts

“One of the most important things is that freedom is not a gift. For freedom you have to fight, defend yourself, sometimes even sacrifice the most important thing: life”. With these words Paulė Kuzmickienė, member of the Lithuanian Parliament, begins

Marina Macrì 12 November 202312 November 2023 Lithuanian Stories, News No Comments Read more

Žemaitis and the resistance, Vaišvilaitė: it was also a moral struggle

Žemaitis and the resistance, Vaišvilaitė: it was also a moral struggle

Lithuania’s armed partisan resistance against the Soviet regime was not only a struggle against occupation and for independence. It was also a moral battle for a completely different worldview, based on national and religious values. A fight against injustice and

Marina Macrì 9 November 20239 November 2023 Lithuanian Stories, News No Comments Read more

Meaning and value of Lithuanian Resistance, interview with Landsbergis

Meaning and value of Lithuanian Resistance, interview with Landsbergis

Our journey continues through the history of the Lithuanian resistance against the Soviet occupation, which lasted from the end of the Second World War until 1990. Vytautas Landsbergis was the one who on March 11 of that year, as President

Marina Macrì 13 October 202320 October 2023 Lithuanian Stories, News No Comments Read more

Jonas Žemaitis, the commander, memories of his niece Aušra

Jonas Žemaitis, the commander, memories of his niece Aušra

“Jonas Žemaitis, commander of fighting Lithuania”, is a project created by the Baltika-Baltijos Istorijos Association and LithuanianStories to remember the figure of the commander of the partisan resistance, with the pivotal support of Kotryna Buono, great granddaughter of Žemaitis. The

Marina Macrì 6 September 202320 September 2023 News, Recollections of the past No Comments Read more

Freedom Defenders Day 2022, our report from Vilnius

Freedom Defenders Day 2022, our report from Vilnius

Anniversary of the attack by the Soviets on January 1991 The night between January 12 and 13, 1991 Mr. Gorbačëv decided going into action. Since the declaration of independence by Lithuania on March 11, 1990 USSR had been attempting to

Marina Macrì 16 January 202216 January 2022 Lithuanian Stories, News No Comments Read more

Landsbergis, the man who opposed the Soviets

Landsbergis, the man who opposed the Soviets

Vytautas Landsbergis was actually the first leader of the free Lithuania. He was the person who declared independence of Lithuania on March 11 1990. Listening to him in this interview is like hearing history happens. Landsbergis is among people who

Marina Macrì 14 January 2021 News, Recollections of the past No Comments Read more

Sigitas Tamkevičius interview-Catholic Church in the Soviet Era

Sigitas Tamkevičius interview-Catholic Church in the Soviet Era

In October 2019, Archbishop Sigitas Tamkevičius from the diocese of Kaunas was raised to the rank of cardinal by Pope Francis. That was an unexpected appointment at the end of a journey that saw him fight for freedom each day

Marina Macrì 25 February 2020 News, Recollections of the past No Comments Read more

Vilnius remember the tragic events of January 1991

Vilnius remember the tragic events of January 1991

We were at the commemorations of events to remember the tragic events of January 1991, when the Soviet Union militarily attacked Lithuania to destroy the country’s independence, declared in March 1990, after almost 50 years of Soviet occupation. We took

Marina Macrì 22 January 202023 January 2020 Lithuanian Stories, News No Comments Read more
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Il progetto “Lapteviečiai, voci del silenzio”


You don’t get to choose the stories you tell. They choose you. They are there, in plain sight. Like Poe’s Purloined Letter, you don’t see them. Then, little by little, as an imperceptible destiny, your eyes meet them more and more frequently. You think this happens by chance. But the memory of the places you have seen and the books you have read becomes less fortuitous. Finally you realize that those places, those pages actually chose you. As a sailor in uncharted seas, you trust the current to guide you. Read more

About


Marina Macrì ed Edo Prando
Marina Macrì Journalist and photographer, is currently responsible of the editorial services at P.M. Studio and its website pmstudionews.com, dedicated to the world of Photo- graphy. She has produced a series of travel reports in different countries Read more

Lithuania today

We visited Lithuania for the first time in June 2005. The country had become a member of the EU just over a year before, together with the other two Baltic States: Latvia and Estonia.

It is difficult to know exactly what called us to there, if not the curiosity we felt for a country that had been swallowed by the huge galaxy of the Soviet Union and that we Southern Europeans knew very little about. Read more

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