Kaina
Economy

Inflation in Lithuania predicted at 0.4 percent in September

Statistics Lithuania predicts that monthly inflation calculated based on the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) will stand at 0.4 percent in September, compared to August. […]

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Defence

How long could Lithuania resist open military aggression?

As Russia is engaging in an undeclared war in eastern Ukraine, people in the Baltic states follow developments in Donbass with anxiety, while their leaders work around the clock to ensure that similar scenarios could not be repeated in their backyards. Still, “what would we do if Russia attacked Lithuania?” has become a question regularly discussed in political meetings, lecture halls and pubs. […]

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Defence

Lithuanian troops take part in exercise in western Ukraine

Soldiers of Lithuania’s Land Forces are starting participation in an international exercise Rapid Trident 2014 in Ukraine‘s Lviv district on Monday. […]

Crimea
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian Foreign Ministry does not recognise “elections” in Crimea

Responding to reports about “elections” held in Ukraine‘s Autonomous Republic of Crimea on 14 September, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry underlined that Lithuania supported Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity and considered organising such “elections” in Crimea as yet another illegal action of the occupation authorities. […]

Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine
Uncategorized

Russian Soldiers – cheap and luckless (I)

Ten years ago on 3 September 2004 at exactly 13:00 in Beslan, North Ossetia, Chechen terrorists allowed the bodies of local people who had been killed and left lying there for three days in front of a school, to be gathered up. On 1 September the 34 Chechen terrorists had taken about 1200 teenagers and children hostage in the school. […]

Economy

Vilnius receives 424 thousand tourists in six months

Statistics Lithuania informs that, over the first half of 2014, the number of tourists grew in accommodation establishments in every county. Compared with the first half of 2013, the number of tourists grew most in Utena County (77.8 percent), the least in Alytus County (3.2 percent). […]