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and its people.

Incumbents

* President: Dalia Grybauskaitė * Prime Minister: Andrius Kubilius

Chairmanships

* Community of Democracies

Events

*May 28 – was held

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written cooperation agreement.

Sports

*July 1–3 –

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held 2010 Lithuania Swimming Championships *July 9–10 – in

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was held

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. *July 22-August 1 – Lithuania held and won

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. *July 27-August 1 – Živilė Balčiūnaitė won gold medal for

at marathon event in

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. *August 14–26 –

achieved 19th place in

2010 Summer Youth Olympics The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ( ta, 2010 கோடைக்கால இளையோர் ஒலிம்பிக் விளையாட்டுக்கள் ms, Sukan Olimpik Belia Musim Panas 2010), officially known as the I Summer ...

with 5 medal (3 golden and 2 bronze) *September 9–19 – Nida held 2010 Lithuanian Sailing Championships. *September 12 – Lithuanian national basketball team won bronze medal at

2010 FIBA World Championship The 2010 FIBA World Championship was the 16th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship contested by the men's national teams. The tournament ran from 28 August to 12 September 2010. It was co-organised by the Inte ...

. *November 25 –

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won silver medal in

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. * November – Vilnius held Lithuania Open darts championship. *

Lithuanian Sportsman of the Year Since 1956, Lithuania honors their greatest athlete of the year Athlete of the Year is an award given by various sports organizations for the athlete whom they have determined to be deserving of such recognition. Definition of "athlete" *In man ...

2010:

Simona Krupeckaitė Simona Krupeckaitė (born 13 December 1982) is a Lithuanian former professional track cyclist. She is the 2009 500 m Time Trial World Champion and World Record holder at 33.296s, and the 2010 Keirin World Champion. She also won the 2009, 2010 a ...

Deaths

*January 20 -

Abraham Sutzkever Abraham Sutzkever ( yi, אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער, Avrom Sutskever; he, אברהם סוצקבר; July 15, 1913 – January 20, 2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. ''The New York Times'' wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet o ...

, Yiddish poet. *January 25 – Algirdas Petrulis, painter. *January 26 -

Eugenijus Karpavičius Eugenijus Karpavičius (19 October 1953 – 26 January 2010) was a Lithuanian illustrator. He represented Lithuania at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2002. His works are on display in the Lithuanian National Museum The National Museum of Lithu ...

, illustrator. *April 8 - Stanislovas Gediminas Ilgūnas, politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. *June 26 -

Algirdas Brazauskas Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas (, 1932 – 2010) was the first President (fourth overall) of a newly re-independent post-Soviet Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006. He also served as head of the Communist Party of Li ...

, the first President of a newly independent post-Soviet Union Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006. *July 7 -

Vytautas Čekanauskas Vytautas Edmundas Čekanauskas (13 May 1930, Šiauliai – 7 July 2010, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian architect, professor of the Vilnius Academy of Art. In 1974 he, together with colleagues, was awarded the Lenin Prize in architecture for the de ...

, architect, professor of the Vilnius Academy of Art.

References

Years of the 21st century in Lithuania 2010s in Lithuania

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