Society

Most Lithuanians opt for local health services

For over a year Lithuanians have been able to seek for medical treatment abroad. Nonetheless, people choose to be treated in Lithuania or in neighbouring countries offering similar prices. In one year and two months 53 people sought treatment abroad and submitted compensation applications to Territorial Health Insurance Funds (TLK). […]

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Foreign affairs

Lithuanian parliament urged to once again probe into CIA prison

The Lithuanian Parliament was proposed to establish a temporary inquiry commission and to investigate and assess charges against Lithuania for its purported participation in the secret CIA prison programme. Meanwhile Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office said on Monday it had sent a legal assistance request to the US Department of Justice. […]

Economy

One-fifth of euro coins and notes sub-frontloaded to Lithuanian companies

Lithuania’s commercial banks have already sub-frontloaded nearly one-fifth of euro coins and banknotes to domestic companies, the governor of the central Bank of Lithuania has said. […]

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Foreign affairs

Anatomy of Russia’s information warfare in the Baltic states

Russia has consistently applied its own interpretation of history and dose of propaganda vis-à-vis the Baltic states. In the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the main source of tension in the propaganda sphere was the interpretation of Soviet history, in particular Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. […]

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Economy

Šiaulių Bankas to participate in renovation programme

The Lithuanian Programme for Renovation of Multi-Apartment Buildings has reached a strategic turning-point. The Programme, which was funded by the state budget and the European Union Structural Funds till now, has found a private investor – Šiaulių Bankas. The first partner of the European Investment Bank in the country in providing preferential renovation loans, Šiaulių Bankas will contribute EUR 20 million of its own resources to be channelled through the JESSICA Holding Fund, the bank said in a statement on 23 December. […]