As the European Broadcast Union determines whether “Eastern European Funk,” in suggesting inequality between eastern and western Europeans, suffers from having political content, Lietuvos Rytas yesterday published an article by Andrius Užkalnis that argues a similar point of inequality, but from the entirely opposite direction.
Užkalnis, the most famous Lithuanian living in England now that John [...]
Continue reading about You are William the Conqueror, not Vilius the Vergas!
After a meeting at work this week, we had our usual pause to drink some wine. For some reason, we were especially thirsty and quickly bored through our two-bottle ration. Wanting more, we tried to have the ration increased, but, instead, the suggestion was that we raid our own private stocks. I happen to have [...]
When Lithuania (re-)declared independence on 11 March 1990, I was not yet even in high school. I often wished I was about eight years older, so that I might somehow throw myself into the mix out there, in the wild edge-of-reality process of nation building.1 I’d have, you know, adventures and stuff.
If I were born [...]
Continue reading about Sometimes it’s good to miss the boat of history
I was pretty excited when over the fall airBaltic announced non-stop flights from VNO to CDG. They’ve had all sorts of sales, and I’ve already flown the route three times. The schedule seems to be settling down a bit (my flight into VNO landed at the hilarious useless time of 23:00), and they are adding [...]
I am responding to no questions on this topic if I consider them already answered below. See Update 2 for the rationale.
Update 1 (21.8.2009) on notarized copies, etc.
Update 2 (2.2.2010) on grandpa’s original birth certificate or passport and answering questions in general.
This morning, I rode my bicycle to the Consulate General of the Republic of [...]
Continue reading about If you read only one post about Lithuanian dual citizenship…
The road is over. I wrote my first “Guide to a Passport” post just under six months ago, and in that time I’ve been in contact with governmental agencies of three nations at varying levels. I’ve read laws, I’ve made ill-prepared phone calls, I’ve scanned in documents. It was a process. But it paid off, [...]
Continue reading about Penultimate “Guide to a Passport” post
The “Guide to a Passport” series is coming to a close, I hope. Despite still not receiving (though they say they mailed it out three weeks ago) my grandfather’s death certificate from the State of Michigan, the upcoming travel season means I need to submit my imperfect application for citizenship in the Republic of Lithuania [...]
Continue reading about Submitting the application for dual citizenship
This website, I hope, won’t devolve into a Lithuania-in-the-news spotter, but an amusing little thing happened during last night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother, called “Murtaugh.”
Ted has come up with a “Murtaugh List” of things he think he is too old (at 30) to do any longer. Barney decides to run through everything [...]
Not much has been going on in the “Guide to a Passport” front, as I’m waiting for Michigan to send me a copy of my grandfather’s death certificate. I mentioned in my last post, however, that a professor at my university recommended that I contact the International Tracing Service based in Arolsen, Germany, about documents [...]
Continue reading about Unexpected proof of post-1940 flight from Lithuania
[UPDATE 8 July 2009] Having received my letter of citizenship from the government, described here, I can say that, in fact, showing proof of flight from 1940–1990 is still important, but that using ITS’s services is sufficient.
[UPDATE 15 April 2009] Having submitted my application, and having had nearly no attention paid to this part [...]
Continue reading about Proving flight from Soviet-Occupied Lithuania
