A lot of Russian spies are operating in Lithuania, so it’s likely that the recently-detained Lithuanian Air Force officer worked for Moscow, says Marius Laurinavičius, an analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre. […]
The ceremony of the Global Lithuanian Awards 2014 took place on 30 December. The Lifetime Achievement Award of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was given to the American Lithuanian organization Lithuanian Children’s Hope, its long-time head Grazina Liautaud and President of the Los Angeles Lithuanian Children’s Hope department Danguole Navickiene. The award was given for consistent support for Vilnius University Children’s Hospital and for nurturing the philanthropic tradition, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Many Lithuanians once sceptical of the euro are now ready to embrace it. Lithuania this night will become the 19th member of the euro zone. […]
Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity) has congratulated Lithuania with its accession to the euro zone on 1 January 2015, the government’s press service informed LETA. […]
Seven Ukrainian soldiers will arrive in Lithuania soon to undergo medical treatment, the Baltic country’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Wednesday. […]
By joining the euro zone, Lithuania is becoming part of an area of stability, security and prosperity, says European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pierre Moscovici. […]
The Lithuanian soldier detained on the suspicion of spying served in the Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai, which accommodates the NATO air policing mission, the base’s commander Lieutenant Colonel Vidmantas Raklevičius confirmed on Wednesday. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania has closed its fifth ordinary autumn session with 45 plenary sittings held from 10 September to 23 December and around 360 laws, 65 resolutions and 5 other legal acts adopted, the press service of the Seimas said. […]
The NATO air-policing mission carries huge symbolic value, Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said at the Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Wednesday. […]
A sentence for the Kremlin’s most famous critic Alexei Navalny was pronounced earlier than everyone expected. This might have been done to deflect protests by Navalny’s supporters, who were planning to take to the streets of Moscow in January, but also due to economic pressures, says a Lithuanian political scientist. […]
What kind of a country bids farewell to its currency for the third time over less than 25 years? […]
The United Nations Security Council, in a 8-2 vote with five abstentions, rejected a resolution on Palestinian statehood which sets a deadline for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian territories by 2017, CNN reports. […]
Commenting on the discrepancies between the defence funding figures provided by different institutions, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that additional funding for defence will be strictly used according to NATO standards. […]
Lithuanian startup Toyze has signed a licensing agreement with global developer and publisher Game Insight for three of its mobile game properties, The Tribez, Dragon Eternity and Mirrors of Albion, Invest Lithuania reports. […]
According to the Ministry of Finance of Lithuania, the central government’s debt in November stood at 39.7 percent of Lithuania’s total projected gross domestic product (GDP) of 2014, LTL 49.673 billion (EUR 14.39 billion). […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated the laureates of this year’s Global Lithuanian Awards, the presidential press service said. […]
On Wednesday, Lithuania is bidding farewell to its national currency, the litas, and welcoming the common European Union (EU) currency, the euro, which will be adopted on 1 January 2015. […]
British journalist and writer Edward Lucas has urged the West to “wake up” in its response to Russia‘s actions, calling upon Lithuanian expats to help their country in the information warfare. […]
As Lithuania is to become the 19th member of the euro zone on 1 January, Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius admits that he has not yet got accustomed to the euro and price tags in two currencies still puzzle him. […]
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