That incomplete building at 3:11 is already under construction and will be completed, I guess next year. You are right, the works of construction went to a halt due to economic crisis when company which financed the project ran out of money. This tear the other company bought the building. It is going to be one of the most original and spectacular modern buildings of Vilnius. The original name of that building is the The Harp. Russian Orthodox church you filmed is the Church of St. Constantine and St. Michael en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._Constantine_and_St._Michael. Two or three years ago the domes and roof were painted green.
Labas! Thanks for your comment. Check out my latest video when I went to Bayahibe in the Dominican Republic and I stayed in an incomplete building ua-cam.com/video/MukJ3VzGUXw/v-deo.html
I like them both very much. But as Vilnius is a bigger city, I felt there were more things to see and do there. Lithuania is a wonderful country and I definitely wanna go back one day to explore the Baltic coast.
Obviously there are barely any russian signs here - russian is not our official language, not even in the same family as us. It was just a lingua franca during the soviet times, nowadays russian is mainly replaced by english. You can still see some signs on places where russian tourists are expected to visit, though. But the same goes for polish, german and in some cases swedish.
Hi there. You see, I'm a language geek who's obsessed with languages when I travel and I live in a painfully monolingual country (the UK - since they expect the rest of the world to speak English). I am very much aware of Lithuania's history and when it was part of the USSR etc and I do speak some Russian, so I was trying to see how much of the old-USSR still remains in Lithuania today. I remember how the older lady at the train station spoke no English at all but was totally fluent in Russian so I spoke to her in Russian to get my train tickets to Kaunas - yeah I get it, you don't like the Soviets, you don't trust Putin, you don't want anything to do with Russia anymore, I am more than aware of that. I visited the Genocide museum in Vilnius and left there crying, I get it. Like dude, I totally get it, okay? Do check out my other language videos in my channel where I show you how I can speak 20 languages (including Russian but sorry, not Lithuanian).
That incomplete building at 3:11 is already under construction and will be completed, I guess next year. You are right, the works of construction went to a halt due to economic crisis when company which financed the project ran out of money. This tear the other company bought the building. It is going to be one of the most original and spectacular modern buildings of Vilnius. The original name of that building is the The Harp.
Russian Orthodox church you filmed is the Church of St. Constantine and St. Michael en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._Constantine_and_St._Michael. Two or three years ago the domes and roof were painted green.
Labas! Thanks for your comment. Check out my latest video when I went to Bayahibe in the Dominican Republic and I stayed in an incomplete building ua-cam.com/video/MukJ3VzGUXw/v-deo.html
You prefer vilnius or kaunas?
I like them both very much. But as Vilnius is a bigger city, I felt there were more things to see and do there. Lithuania is a wonderful country and I definitely wanna go back one day to explore the Baltic coast.
Obviously there are barely any russian signs here - russian is not our official language, not even in the same family as us. It was just a lingua franca during the soviet times, nowadays russian is mainly replaced by english. You can still see some signs on places where russian tourists are expected to visit, though. But the same goes for polish, german and in some cases swedish.
Hi there. You see, I'm a language geek who's obsessed with languages when I travel and I live in a painfully monolingual country (the UK - since they expect the rest of the world to speak English). I am very much aware of Lithuania's history and when it was part of the USSR etc and I do speak some Russian, so I was trying to see how much of the old-USSR still remains in Lithuania today. I remember how the older lady at the train station spoke no English at all but was totally fluent in Russian so I spoke to her in Russian to get my train tickets to Kaunas - yeah I get it, you don't like the Soviets, you don't trust Putin, you don't want anything to do with Russia anymore, I am more than aware of that. I visited the Genocide museum in Vilnius and left there crying, I get it. Like dude, I totally get it, okay?
Do check out my other language videos in my channel where I show you how I can speak 20 languages (including Russian but sorry, not Lithuanian).