Minister of Culture Šarūnas Birutis has dismissed actors’ concerns over the reform plan for national and state theatres that has been prepared by the ministry. The reform would turn theatres into public undertakings and actors would work under fixed term contracts. The minister says the present situation must change so that actors earn more and have better working conditions. […]
A newly-built high voltage power line between Klaipėda and Telšiai has been put into operation. It is the first 330 kV overhead power line built after the restoration of Lithuania’s independence. The power line will transmit electricity from Northern Europe to Lithuania when the NordBalt power link begins to operate, energy company Litgrid announced in a statement. […]
The Lithuanian National Union of Students has presented their higher education vision, which sees Lithuania reducing the number of higher education institutions and universities by 2030. […]
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven of Sweden is making a stop in Vilnius on Tuesday during his tour of the Baltic states and Finland. […]
A Lithuanian soldier sustained a serious head injury on Thursday night when returning from a training event. […]
Bomb disposal troops from the Lithuanian army‘s Juozas Vitkus Engineer Battalion have discovered a record number of around 2,000 World War Two cannonballs in the western Klaipėda District over the last few days, the country’s Ministry of National Defence said on Friday. […]
Lithuania plans to purchase infantry fighting vehicles and has already received offers from ten producers. They will be evaluated by a special working group set up by the Ministry of National Defence. […]
The case of the Lithuanian fishing vessel Jūros Vilkas (Sea Wolf) detained by Russia will be handed over to court next week. […]
Lithuania will establish a consulate in Los Angeles. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lithuanian parliament gave its go-ahead on Friday. […]
“Russia is an unreliable partner, irrespectively of what it says. The world is beginning to learn how to see what Russia actually does,” says Prof. Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
The European Commission recommends Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland to start preparing for an emergency situation immediately since if Russian gas taps were turned off, Estonia, for example, would run out of gas in 4-5 days, Eesti Paevaleht writes. […]
In a reply to a letter sent by European Parliament members, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and French President Francois Hollande have stated that the Mistral warships meant for Russia cannot be purchased by the EU. […]
On Thursday, a meeting of Nordic-Baltic defence policy directors officially approved that the projects implemented in the Nordic Defence Cooperation (NORDEFCO) format have been opened for the Baltic States. […]
Lithuania’s Liberal MEP Petras Auštrevičius has initiated a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling for release of Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko. […]
On this day in sport Stasys Šaparnis added to Lithuania’s Olympic glory under Soviet occupation. […]
The European Union (EU) is easing its tone towards Russia, although there are no reasons for the change, says Benediktas Juodka, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė’s former senior economic adviser Nerijus Udrėnas has been appointed to assist Ukraine in the implementation of the association agreement with the European Union (EU). […]
One year ago, on 8 October 2013, US energy giant Chevron, which had won the competition for exploring and digging into Lithuania’s shale gas deposits, announced it was leaving the country. To this Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius responded: if you want to leave, then leave. The market is big, others will come. […]
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