No Picture
CORPORATE

Parties take to decisive battle over municipalities: some hope to maintain positions, others aim for records

With little time left to the municipal and direct mayoral elections, political party leaders are pondering, which city and region bastions they will hold on to and where they have chances to break through. The Social Democrats, Liberal Movement and Order and Justice Party remain modest both about increases in their mayors and council members, while the Conservatives and “Farmers”, who remain the most popular parties, believe that they could reach historical victories in the elections, lrt.lt writes. […]

Kęstutis Girnius
CORPORATE

Kęstutis Girnius. The changed Lithuanian political landscape

Politics does not stand in place, change is a near constant even if the changes are often insignificant. New political parties emerge, draw voters for a few years and then vanish. The Way of Courage, the National Revival Party, A. PaulauskasNew Union, the Modern Christian Democrat Union, the Lithuanian Freedom Union, the Labour Party, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour Party – this is only part of the political parties, which formed after the re-establishment of independence, most forming after the year 2000. […]

Vytautas Grubliauskas
Foreign affairs

Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette conferred upon Vytautas Grubliauskas

On 3 November 2018, the Government of Japan announced that Mr. Vytautas Grubliauskas was conferred with The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contribution as the Mayor of Klaipėda City to building friendly relationship between Japan and Lithuania, especially in the fields of cultural and defence exchanges, a press release from the Japanese embassy states. […]

Viačeslavas Titovas.
Politics

Klaipėda council votes to turn to court over councilor’s impeachment

The City Council of Klaipėda voted on Thursday to turn to court over the impeachment of Viačeslav Titov, a councilor representing the Union of Russians in Lithuania, who has accused Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas of killing innocent civilians. […]

Viačeslav Titov
Politics

Probe launched in Lithuania into councilor’s statements on partisan leader

Lithuania’s law enforcement said on Monday it had opened an investigation into the statements by Viačeslav Titov, a councilor in the port of Klaipėda, on Lithuanian partisan leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. […]

Panevėžys
Society

Biggest cities fear new planned refugee integration scheme

Mayors of some of Lithuania’s biggest cities fear the government’s plans to move refugees directly to municipalities from April and bypass the stopover in the Rukla Refugee Reception Centre, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday. […]