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Thirty Five Years of Freedom for Lithuania

Thirty Five Years of Freedom for Lithuania

A beautiful day in Vilnius, sunny and unusually warm for the season. A special day. On March 11 this year, the Baltic country marks the 35th anniversary of the restoration of independence in 1990. A freedom achieved thanks to a

Marina Macrì 12 March 202512 March 2025 Lithuanian Stories, News No Comments Read more

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

Progetto Žemaitis. Journalist Leščiauskaitė: born in free Lithuania

Progetto Žemaitis. Journalist Leščiauskaitė: born in free Lithuania

Our meeting with Fausta Marija Leščiauskaitė takes place in a hotel located in old town of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania: Stikliai hotel in the heart of the old city, where there was the Jewish quarter in the past. Fausta

Marina Macrì 5 November 20235 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

Žemaitis, the value of resistance: speaks historian Juodis

Žemaitis, the value of resistance: speaks historian Juodis

In this interview, Darius Juodis, historian at the Military Academy General Jonas Žemaitis of Lithuania, speaks about the figure of the commander of the Lithuanian anti-Soviet partisan resistance. In particular, the historian focuses on the impact that Žemaitis has today.

Marina Macrì 20 September 202313 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

Lithuania Independence Day in Vilnius, March 11 for freedom

Lithuania Independence Day in Vilnius, March 11 for freedom

March 11, 2023. Lithuania marks its 33rd anniversary of independence. Nobody could have thought that even this year the anniversary would have been a day not only to remember the regaining of the independence of the Baltic state in 1990,

Marina Macrì 12 March 202315 March 2023 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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