Just prior to his mid-October 2014 visit to the United States, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius revealed that his talks with the US government would devote special attention to energy issues, including trying to invite US companies to take part in a new shale gas exploration tender to be announced in the near future. […]
As defence funding grows, the proportion of expenditure on appropriations, for sustaining the armed forces and for military purchases, will meet NATO standards in 2015. Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says this will allow Lithuania to retain its capabilities and augment the reserve. […]
In Advanced Style, the documentary by Lithuanian filmmaker Lina Plioplytė, based on US photographer Ari Seth Cohen’s blog of the same name, a clutch of New York women ranging in age from 62 to 95 are celebrated for their unique style: furs, rhinestones, paisleys, florals, feathers, caftans, and hats, always hats. The documentary challenging accepted notions of beauty and fashion is coming to cinemas in Lithuania this December. […]
Lithuanian employers have quite different expectations from students and graduates when hiring and getting hired, shows a poll published on Wednesday. […]
The war in Ukraine is a consequence of Europe having failed to draw lessons from the 2008 war in Georgia, when a normal dialogue with Russia was resumed less than two months after the fighting, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. […]
Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė agrees that the Lithuanian language should be protected, but says proposals to have foreign companies’ names translated into Lithuanian is an exaggeration. […]
The situation is Ukraine has gotten more ominous. Additional armed Russian troops have entered the country’s territory a week ago, accompanied by heavy weaponry and tanks. This mobilization of Russia‘s armed forces is not the first such occurrence, but the significance lies in its timing on the eve of several high-profile international meetings. […]
NATO will hold more military exercises in Lithuania in response to Russian actions, Lithuania’s Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas said on Wednesday. […]
On 17 November, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) organized the discussion “The Dynamics of Defence Cooperation: Possibilities and Limits in a Changing Europe”, which brought international expert perspectives on the possibilities and limits of Swedish defence cooperation. […]
The Lithuanian citizenship was granted to relatively few individuals compared to many other European Union (EU) countries in 2012, the EU’s Eurostat statistics agency said. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has come under criticism from some of his fellow party members for his hard position on Russia, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reports. […]
As yet another tourism company unexpectedly terminated its activities on Friday, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the State Tourism Department (VTD) has not learned from its mistakes of the past, while the competence of the institution’s heads is very questionable. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned Tuesday’s terrorist attack in the Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem. […]
Despite Russia’s embargo and the complicated situation in top export markets, Lithuanian economic growth in 2014 will be among the fastest in the EU member states. […]
Serbia’s Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2015 will strengthen Serbia’s position on the international political arena and give it extra points in integration into the European Union (EU). […]
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