Lietuvos žinios

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Lietuvos žinios (News of Lithuania) is a popular name for a Lithuanian newspaper. There were 4 different newspapers with the same name

  1. Lietuvos žinios, a liberal newspaper, was printed in Vilnius from June 19, 1909 to August 15, 1915. At first it was issued three times a week, and in 1914 it became a daily. It was printed by partnership F. Bortkevičienė, dr. K. Grinius ir Ko. This was official newspaper of Lithuanian Democratic Party.
  2. Lietuvos žinios was published from February 16, 1922 to September 1, 1940 in Kaunas. It was an official newspaper of Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union. Notable editors in chief were Jonas Vileišis, Felicija Bortkevičienė, Jonas Kardelis.
  3. Lietuvos žinios, a newspaper for politics, culture and society, was published in 1990 - 1993 in Vilnius by Social Democratic Party of Lithuania and daily circulation reached some 30,000 copies. Editors in chief were Gintautas Iešmantas, Virginija Kligytė, Mečislovas Šaltenis.
  4. Lietuvos žinios, a daily newspaper, printed by the company, that bought out stock of the newspaper from Social Democratic Party of Lithuania from 1994.

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