The Lithuania Tribune spoke to former American Ambassador to Lithuania Keith C. Smith. It was during his term in 1999 that Lithuania’s major oil refinery, Mažeikių Nafta, was sold to the American company Williams, a deal that went terribly sour several years later. […]
The ministerial teams will most likely not include Deputy Minister of the Interior Algimantas Juocevičius, Deputy Minister of Environment Almantas Petkus and Deputy Minister of Agriculture Živilė Pinskuvienė, who were included in the so-called blacklist compiled by the Special Investigation Service (STT). On Monday this was confirmed by the Ministries in question. […]
Lithuania’s Armed Forces will purchase infantry combat vehicles in the framework of modernization of its Land Forces, the Defense Ministry has announced on Monday. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has presented letters of credence to Loreta Zakarevičienė, Lithuanian ambassador to Austria, the presidential press service informs. […]
At the informal meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council in Italy, Lithuania’s Minister of Economy Evaldas Gustas has proposed to strengthen the European working group on competitiveness and growth. […]
Every second driver in Lithuania disregards the prohibition to use the phone while driving without handsfree equipment, shows a survey carried out by Lithuanian non-life insurance company Lietuvos Draudimas. […]
Smooth switch-over to the euro in Lithuania next year would increase consumer confidence in the common European currency, says Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, director of the International Relations and Political Science Institute of Vilnius University. […]
Association of Lithuanian Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Crafts (LPPARA) says that small businesses should be allowed to give change in litas even after the date that Lithuania switched to the euro. […]
The US giant in health care technologies and services Intermedix Corporation opened its first international services centre in Lithuania and invested LTL 17.5 million (EUR 5.07 million) in its centre in Kaunas, Invest Lithuania informs. […]
The International M. K. Čiurlionis Music Festival has started in Palanga. It was regarded as one of the main events of last year’s Palanga – Culture Capital of Lithuania programme by Lithuanian listeners and foreign guests alike. […]
According to preliminary data, in the first half of 2014 the budget deficit of the State Social Insurance Fund Board (SoDra) decreased by more than a third of a billion litas. […]
Estonian company Regio began updating Google Street View map database in the three Baltic States. […]
Six out of ten Lithuanians believe the situation in the country has worsened. This trend has been revealed by a poll conducted on 19-28 June by pollster Baltijos Tyrimai, commissioned by ELTA news agency. […]
A draft law proposing to specify the definition of pharmaceutical activities by including pharmaceutical care in its definition has been proposed by MP Dangutė Mikutienė. […]
There are a number of ways to look at the actions of the Russian Federation and the man behind it. Or you could look beyond the person and examine how the state reacts as a whole and what sort of goals and expectations it has. […]
Lithuania still needs to do a good deal of catching up with Latvia and Estonia in charting more foreign cinema waters, insists Algirdas Ramaška, executive director of Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris” (Cinema Spring), the biggest and most successful cinema event in Lithuania. But with the leaps some of the young generation movie directors have been recently making, a Hollywood acclamation can come sooner rather than later. Ramaška kindly agreed to answer these questions from the Lithuania Tribune. […]
On 1 January this year, Latvians switched from lats and santimus, that had been the national currency for the last 20 years, to euro banknotes and cents. DELFI interviewed a couple of traders in a local market at Ventspils and asked how they were getting used to the new currency. […]
Former head of the Russian oil company Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a known anti-Kremlin figure who was released from prison in late 2013, has revealed plans to establish a new online news site based in Latvia, Gazeta.ru reports. […]
A new chief executive officer has been appointed to head the Vilnius-based airline Air Lituanica. Gytis Gumuliauskas has replaced Erikas Zubrus in the post, Air Lituanica informs. […]
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