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Vilnius mayor denounces racist remarks by BC Lietuvos Rytas president
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius on Friday denounced racist remarks by Gedvydas Vainauskas, president of BC Lietuvos Rytas, a professional basketball club based in the Lithuanian capital, about the number of black players on the team. […]
Economy
Jurbarkas district expected to return EUR 1 mln in EU funds – daily
The district of Jurbarkas, which borders the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, is to return almost 1 million euros in EU funds to the Lithuania-Poland-Russia Cross-Border Cooperation Program, the daily Lietuvos Zinios reported on Friday. […]
Society
Culture
Kevisas fired as national opera and ballet theater director
Gintautas Kevisas, the long-standing director general of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT), is being dismissed from his post, the Culture Ministry said. […]
Economy
Government yet to decide on use of 13 million euros paid by Alstom
The government has not yet made its decision on the use of 13 million euros paid by Alstom to the country as ordered by a London court in a case in which the French group’s Swedish energy unit Alstom Power was accused of corruption in Lithuania. […]
Freetime
Foreign Ministry unveils mobile app for travelers
The Foreign Ministry unveiled on Monday a new mobile application for travelers, named “Travel Safely”. […]
Economy
Many additional changes in the future tax reform
Due to the plans to transfer the employer social security contributions to the employee, the minimum wage and non-taxable income levels, tax rates will change. There are fears that these changes wouldn‘t reduce salaries for […]
Economy
EP member: Baltic states should be strong on Rail Baltica project
Amid the increasingly heated discussions in the Baltic states about the financing of the European-gauge Rail Baltica project from European Union (EU) funds, Wim van de Camp of the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee says that the three Baltic states would definitely secure European funding for the project, if they are strong and demonstrate determination for the huge investment. […]
Economy
Lithuania’s railway company turns to prosecutors over former executives’ operations
The new top executives of the Lithuanian state-run railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (LG) have turned to prosecutors over about 5 million euros in damages caused to the company by possibly non-transparent operations of its earlier chiefs. […]