Lithuanian State Security Department chief Gediminas Grina told parliament on Tuesday he could not give any new answers about the US Central Intelligence Agency’s secret prisons. […]
Supplies bought for the money raised at a Vilnius art auction in December should reach Ukrainian troops by the New Year, the organizers say. […]
Danelė Vidutienė, chair of the US-Lithuanian Community Public Affairs Council, Asta Banionytė, member of the Council and former Capitol Hill staffer, and representatives of the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) met with US Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH). […]
Lithuania’s government has suggested that parliament pass a law ensuring security for Vytautas Landsbergis, the country’s first post-independence leader. […]
On Tuesday, liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker Arctic Aurora delivered the first commercial shipment of gas to Lithuania’s LNG terminal. […]
Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that parliament will not consider amendments to the Criminal Code during the parliament’s current session. The Order and Justice party has proposed reducing liability for trading in influence. […]
Lithuanian company Lietuvos Energijos Gamyba (Lithuanian Energy Production) says it has no information on any allegations against former staff members of its subsidiary Lietuvos Elektrinė (Lithuanian Power Plant), connected to French engineering group Alstom which has recently been charged in the UK with corruption linked to work in Lithuania. […]
Eurimages, the Council of Europe‘s film support fund, extended a grant of EUR 220,000 to the film Seneca’s Day directed by the Lithuanian director Kristijonas Vildžiūnas. […]
Energy, national security and welfare, scientific achievements were the highlights of 2014 in Lithuania, says Virginija Būdienė, chief advisor on domestic policy for Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania decided on Tuesday to summon the head of the country’s State Security Department, Gediminas Grina, over suspicions that a secret CIA prison, mentioned in the recently-published US Senate’s report on detention and torture of suspected terrorists, could have operated in Lithuania in 2005-2006. […]
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General Darius Valys on Tuesday asked parliament to strip MP Rimas Antanas Ručys (Order and Justice party) of his legal immunity to face prosecution for allegedly taking a bribe. […]
At the UN Security Council meeting on Monday, Lithuania called for seeking responsibility for crimes against humanity in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed the country’s budget for the next year, her press service said on Tuesday. […]
It is often said that politicians make for strange bedfellows. Moreover, people are judged by the friends or partners they have in life. In that light, one really should question Rolandas Paksas’ judgement when he invited UKIP’s Nigel Farage to his Order and Justice party congress in Vilnius. […]
Lithuanian producers are concerned about the United Kingdom‘s nutrition labelling system which uses the colours of traffic lights. Most traditional Lithuanian goods, cheese, ham, honey and jam, will be marked in red despite being made of natural ingredients. […]
Representatives of the World Lithuanian Youth Association (PLJS) met with Minister of Justice Juozas Bernatonis and expressed their support for the ideas of electronic voting and e-residents. […]
An international panel of experts has recommended to the European Commission to approve Kaunas City Municipality’s application ‘Kaunas of 1919-1940’ and to include the city in the list of the European Heritage Label sites. The European Commission will adopt a decision by 15 February 2015. […]
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