Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė
Politics

New healthcare minister pledges to not alienate private institutions

The new Minister of Health Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė says that the government must not antagonize and set private and public healthcare one against the other, but rather it should establish a clear procedure for providing services in private healthcare institutions. […]

Lithuania's Deputy Minister of National Defence Antanas Valys on Monday presented the National Defence System Medal of Merit to the outgoing French Defence Attaché Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Luc Lopez
Defence

Lithuanian-French defence cooperation in spotlight during defence attaché changeover ceremony in Vilnius

Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of National Defence Antanas Valys on Monday presented the National Defence System Medal of Merit to the outgoing French Defence Attaché Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Luc Lopez for his personal contribution to the development of cooperation between the French and the Lithuanian Armed Forces. The officer was representing the interest of the French Armed Forces in Lithuania since August 2011, the Ministry of National Defence says. […]

Foreign affairs

Lithuania has prepared sanction plan for Russia

Lithuania has already drawn up a plan for national sanctions against Russia and it will be implemented if needed, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]

Royal Irish Rifles ration party Somme July 1916
Society

Echoes of the Great War resonate a century later

On 28 July 1914, exactly one month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were shot dead, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The stage was set for World War I, an inevitable result of decades of political manoeuvring, militarization, alliances and planning for a conflict that would shatter the great European epoch, laying waste to empires and ascendant nations. […]

Andrey Illarionov
Uncategorized

Andrey Illarionov in Vilnius: Obama could have stopped Putin

US President Barack Obama had the chance to stop the annexation of Crimea, according to Andrey Illarionov, former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]

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Uncategorized

Organizers threaten to pull high-profile music festival from Latvia following sanctions against Russian performers

Russian composer and organizer of the New Wave music contest, Igor Krutoy, warns will consider moving the annual festival out of Latvia‘s Baltic resort Jurmala. His statement follows a decision by the Latvian government to refuse entry to several Russian pop performers due to their vocal support for Moscow’s policies in Ukraine. […]

Raimondas Rumšas
Sports