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Month: January 2015
Society
Defence
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Kremlinologist Lilia Shevtsova: Putin is a mediocre leader pushing his country to collapse
Lilia Shevtsova, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution, says that Vladimir Putin is a far cry from the shrewd and effective leader everyone, friends and foes alike, take him to be. On the contrary, she says, the Russian president is a shallow mediocrity who has not got a clue how to avert his country’s imminent collapse. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian prime minister signs book of condolences at French Embassy
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Monday paid tribute to the victims of the recent terror attacks in France by signing a book of condolences at the Embassy of France in Vilnius. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s ruling coalition talks education and healthcare reforms
In 2015, Lithuania’s ruling coalition is planning reforms in the areas of science and education as well as healthcare areas, according to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
Society
Vytautas Landsbergis calls for restoring conscript army in Lithuania
Lithuania’s first post-independence leader, signatory to the 11 March Act, former speaker of the Supreme-Council-Reconstituent Seimas, Vytautas Landsbergis, has called for the restoration of conscription in Lithuania in the wake Russia‘s aggression in Ukraine. […]
Sports
NBA star Ilgauskas officially loses Lithuanian citizenship
On Monday, retired NBA player Žydrūnas Ilgauskas officially lost his Lithuanian citizenship. The decree was signed by Lithuanian Minister of Interior Saulius Skvernelis. […]
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Politics
President slams welfare minister for stagnant foster care reform and murky fund use
President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskienė on Monday and criticised her for stagnating reforms in children’s care homes and for the lack of transparency in the ministry’s use of funds. […]
Politics
Former president’s advisor acquitted in classified information leaking case
Daiva Ulbinaitė, former advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė, did not abuse civil service and did not reveal state secrets, a court ruled on Monday. […]
Defence
Culture
President Grybauskaitė invites Lithuanians to join remembrance campaign
Over 1,500 Lithuanian schools, state institutions and organisations have responded to the invitation by the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania and President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is a patron of the initiative, to participate in the civic campaign Memory is Alive Through Testimony, which is dedicated to the Day of Freedom Defenders. […]
Economy
Klaipėda port resumes normal operations after storm
The Lithuanian seaport of Klaipėda resumed normal operations on Sunday evening after a storm that had halted vessel traffic during the weekend, a spokeswoman said on Monday. […]
Society
January 1991 case expected to reach Lithuanian court this summer
Twenty-four years after the attempted coup of 13 January 1991, parties in the case are studying the materials of the exclusive Lithuanian investigation that concluded in the end of last year. […]
Global LT
Lithuanian communities in Belgium and Ireland join traditional 13 January run
Last Saturday, 10 January, the 24th international run, the Road of Life and Death, dedicated to commemorate defenders of Lithuania’s freedom, took place in Lithuania, Belgium and Ireland. Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also took part in the event. […]
Global LT
US Lithuanians organize 13 January run in Portland
When an e-mail from Vilnius came with an invitation to join the traditional annual run “On the Road of Life and Death”, we were listening to Brahms’ piano concerto in Portland performed by a student of the prestigious Rice University in Houston (Texas), Lithuanian pianist Rūta Kuzmickaitė who was born five years after the historic events of 13 January 1991. She had returned for holidays to her family in Oregon. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian ambassador to Ukraine to quit diplomatic service
Petras Vaitiekūnas, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania to Ukraine, has decided to quit the diplomatic service after returning to Vilnius once his term of office ends. Vaitiekūnas’, 61, diplomatic career spanned over two decades, vz.lt reports. He served as Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs between 2006 and 2008. […]
Culture
Lithuania prepares to commemorate Day of Freedom Defenders
A series of events to mark the Day of Freedom Defenders is starting in Lithuania on Monday in tribute to the victims of the Soviet aggression of 13 January 1991. […]
Defence
Russian air force activity down at Baltic borders
Russian military airplanes have become less active at borders of the Baltic states, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence says. […]