Absolute majority of Lithuanians (95 percent) who think their rights were violated did not turn anywhere about it, shows a poll carried out for the Human Rights Monitoring Institute in October. […]
Ambassador of Lithuania in Sweden Eitvydas Bajarūnas participated in the conference “The Baltic trade and transport”, held on 4-5 November in Karlshamn, south-eastern Sweden. […]
The Vilnius-based Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI) presented its annual human rights award to Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius. The award is presented on the international Human Rights Day, 10 December. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said on Wednesday that the reports on alleged CIA-operated prison in Lithuania will have to be investigated by the Prosecutor General‘s Office, and if the information proves correct, Lithuania will have to take responsibility. […]
Human rights activists on Wednesday urged Lithuanian prosecutors to turn to the United States with a request to provide its full report about overseas prisons of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including one that allegedly operated in Lithuania. […]
The United States had notified Lithuania in advance of the publication of the Senate report about prisoner torturing performed by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in secret detention centres, including one possibly in Lithuania. […]
A sponsorship agreement worth more than 100,000 euros has been signed by Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and UAB Intermedix Lietuva, the Lithuanian branch of Intermedix, a US company that provides IT solutions for the US healthcare market. […]
The European Union and national legislation obliges to establish liability for corruption in the private sector. Meanwhile, Lithuania does not have a definition of what corruption in the private sector is, says Dr Petras Ragauskas, chief research staff member of the Institute of Law. […]
On 10-12 December, Chief of Staff of the Danish Army Major General Hans Christian Mathiesen will be paying a visit to Lithuania. […]
The US Senate’s recently-published report on the CIA detention and interrogation programme could trigger a rise in terrorist activity, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
Specialists from law firm Tark Grunte Sutkiene (TGS) and audit company Deloitte will work in Bank Snoras bankruptcy administrator Gintaras Adomonis’ team during the takeover procedure of the administration of the bank. Meanwhile, British law firm Linklaters LLP and Swiss Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwalte AG will be assisting the administrator in international processes. […]
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office asks that former presidential adviser Daiva Ulbinaitė be found guilty of leaking a state secret and abusing her powers and be imposed a fine of 32,500 litas (EUR 9,400), her lawyer Giedrius Danelius said. […]
If, hypothetically, Russia imposed a gas embargo on Lithuania and the country would have to look for alternatives at a 50-to-100-percent surcharge, then in the first year of such an embargo Lithuania’s economy would lose LTL 1.6-1.9 billion (EUR 467-550 million), which is about what the country has invested in the pipeline connections with Poland and the LNG terminal. […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday adopted the 2015 budget for the state social insurance fund, Sodra, that provides for bringing sickness and unemployment benefits back to the pre-crisis level from January and raising pensions from July. […]
All EU member states are capable of fighting the Ebola threat, Lithuanian EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis told BNS during his first visit to Vilnius as a European commissioner. […]
More than 20 businesspeople and representatives of business organisations are taking part in the high level Ukraine-Lithuania business mission to Brussels on 9-11 December, organised by the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK), the confederation said in a report. […]
The 20th Vilnius IFF invites all Lithuanians in the country and abroad to submit their films for the festival’s program by 15 December 2014. Selected films will be screened during the festival that will open on 19 March 2015. […]
A Migration Information Centre will be established in Lithuania next year and it will provide information to repatriates, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday morning. […]
The name “Moguai” may not sound familiar at first (well, at least if you are not a fanatic of EDM), but if you look him up, you will see that he has collaborated with the likes of Fatboy Slim and he has done remixes for artists that range from Britney Spears to Moby. […]
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