Year: 2014

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway Leif Arne Ulland, who ends his term in Lithuania. During the meeting, the Prime Minister emphasized that Norway is an important partner of Lithuania and thanked the Ambassador for his personal contribution to the development of good bilateral relations as well as an intensifying cooperation in both the business and cultural sectors, the prime minister’s press service said. […]

Kleiza, Javtokas will not play for Lithuania’s national team in world championship

The Lithuanian Basketball Federation has officially presented the list of candidates to play for the national basketball team in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain. The list contains 17 names. […]

Algimanta Pabedinskienė and Dalia Grybauskaitė

President calls on Social Democrats to take lead

To take the lead and to dare to correct mistakes made by other ministries – these are the objectives set by President Dalia Grybauskaitė for Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskienė. The president received the minister on Tuesday. […]

Lithuania, Israel could trade in gas – President

Israel could supply gas to Lithuania in the future, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said during a meeting with Israeli businessmen in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]

Three Lithuania’s international airports merged

From 1 July State Enterprise (SE) Kaunas Airport and SE Palanga International Airport will be merged into SE Vilnius International Airport, with SE Vilnius International Airport as the surviving entity taking over rights, obligations and contracts of SE Kaunas Airport and SE Palanga International Airport. […]

Lithuania condemns kidnap, murder of Israeli teenagers, calls for de-escalation

Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday condemned the kidnap and murder of Israeli teenagers and also called on the Israeli government and the Palestinians to refrain from actions that might increase tension in the region. […]

Proposed Constitutional Court president pledges to step up case hearing

Professor Dainius Žalimas of Vilnius University’s Faculty of Law, proposed by the Lithuanian president for president of the country’s Constitutional Court, pledges to solve the problem of lengthy case hearings. […]

Lithuanian PM says making “blacklist” public is mistake

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that making the so called blacklist of deputy ministers public has been a mistake, as it may impede further investigation. According to the head of the Cabinet, decisions on deputy minister will be made by ministers, their immediate superiors. […]

Žukas appointed Lithuania’s chief of defence

Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas has been appointed new chief of defence of Lithuania. He will start his five-year term on Jul. 24, the Lithuanian president’s press service said on Tuesday. He will replace Lieutenant General Arvydas Pocius. […]

Why Sikorski is more useful in Brussels than in Warsaw?

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Now that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is mired in a phone-tapping scandal, political editors say that he could have been more beneficial in the European Union (EU) Foreign Policy chief post instead of in Polish Foreign Ministry […]

Foreign Minister Linkevičius in top 50 best connected leaders on Twitter

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Lithuanian political leaders do not lag behind when it comes to using social media. Among the top mutual connections of political leaders with Twitter accounts, two are Lithuanian, LRT.lt informed. […]

Representatives of the Belarusian opposition said in Vilnius on June 30

“Ukraine” worst word in Belarus now – opposition in Vilnius

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“Ukraine” is now the worst word in Belarus, representatives of the Belarusian opposition said in Vilnius on Monday, also stating that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has found himself in a standstill in terms of the country’s relations with Russia. […]

Incoming Chief of Defence: Lithuanian army stopped evolving

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Lithuania’s army stopped developing and improving after funding was cut due to the recent recession, incoming Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says. […]

Entrepreneurial playwright Ivaškevičius: “Plays sell best today”

June 30, 2014 Linas Jegelevicius 0

41-year-old Marius Ivaškevičius today is an established playwright, aspiring movie director and definitely one of the most talented young-generation’s artists in Lithuania. Frankly, we had met ages ago, in the early 1990, when Marius, then a student of the Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University’s Philology Department, mingled in M.K. Sarbievijus courtyard along with other literature wannabes, some of which, like him, very aspiring. […]

Lithuanians expressed their position by snubbing land sale ban referendum

The majority of people in Lithuania expressed their civic position by snubbing the land sale referendum, held on Sunday, which failed due to a record-low turnout, says Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University. […]

referendum on a ban of sale of agricultural land to foreigners and legal entities

Land sale ban referendum fails in Lithuania due to record-low turnout

The referendum on a ban of sale of agricultural land to foreigners and legal entities, held in Lithuania on Sunday, has failed due to a record-low turnout, according to figures from the country’s Central Electoral Commission. […]

Land sale ban referendum failed due to bad timing – coordinator

The referendum on a ban of sale of agricultural land to foreigners and legal entities, held in Lithuania on Sunday, has failed due to bad timing, Julius Panka, the coordinator of the referendum’s initiative group, believes. […]

Under 7% of Lithuanians have voted in land sale ban referendum by 1p.m.

Only 6.44 percent of eligible voters have expressed their will at 1p.m. in the referendum on a proposed ban to sell agricultural land to foreigners and legal entities, being held in Lithuania on Sunday, which is several times lower that during the recent elections in May. […]

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius after casting his vote in the referendum

Land sale ban referendum will fail – Lithuanian PM

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes the referendum on a ban of sale of agricultural land to foreigners in Lithuania, taking place on Sunday, will fail as less than a half of all voters will vote. […]

New commander of Lithuanian Riflemen’ Union hopes membership increase