Lithuanian legendary basketball player, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, who retired at the end of last season, will be formally crowned a Euroleague basketball legend this Thursday. […]
Ronaldas Račinskas, the head of the International Commission for the Evaluation of Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, approves of the ideas of Polish politicians when they say that events marking the end of World War II hostilities should take place in other European capitals and not in Moscow. He says that Russia continues to justify its actions with categories from World War II. […]
Two of Lithuania’s political heavyweights, the Social Democratic Party and the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives), are preparing for leadership elections. […]
Norway‘s Ambassador to Lithuania Dag Malmer Halvorsen says that children are rarely taken from their Lithuanian families in Norway. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says that the French and German leaders attending the Minsk talks on peace in Ukraine on Wednesday will speak on the EU’s behalf, emphasizing the historic responsibility of the talks. […]
The third event of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Baltic Assembly will be held in Šiauliai. The Education, Science and Culture Committee of the Baltic Assembly will have a meeting in Šiauliai University on Friday, 13 February 2015, the Seimas press service said. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she does not have high hopes for the Minsk peace talks, which are starting on Wednesday and will focus on working out a solution for Russia‘s undeclared war on Ukraine. […]
On 5 February, Enterprise Lithuania hosted its annual startup event Startup Lithuania Overview 2014. During the event, the highlights of Lithuania Startup Ecocystem of 2014 were announced and awards were given to the teams that achieved the most in 2014, Enterprise Lithuania reports. […]
Seven Ukrainian children from the war-ridden areas of Luhansk and Donetsk accompanied by a teacher should come to Lithuania later in February to finish the academic year here, the Lithuanian government said in the cover letter of a resolution. […]
Lithuania’s Deputy Foreign Minister Rolandas Kriščiūnas, who attended General Affairs Council in Brussels on Tuesday, has stressed the necessity to strengthen the security of the European Union‘s external borders. […]
Scholars will discuss the consequences of the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979–1989 from a transnational perspective, especially in terms of strategies for (re)integrating veterans during a two-day workshop at the European Humanities University. On February 12 at 5 PM they present their research in a round table at Vilnius University´s History Faculty. […]
Lithuania’s government hopes that the statement published by China on Tuesday will pave way for trade and economic cooperation, as well as put an end to diplomatic tensions that started when the Dalai Lama visited Vilnius 18 months ago. […]
In an effort to get the title of the European Capital of Culture, Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas should include the city’s residents, think about the city’s identity and the wanted changes, consultants said after meeting with representatives of Kaunas cultural institutions on Tuesday. […]
The decision by Maxima LT, Lithuania’s largest retailer that has been slapped with a 16.9-million-euro fine for anti-trust violations, to lower prices for over 1,000 products may have a positive effect on the economy, if it leads to increased competition among retail chains, Nerijus Mačiulis, the chief economist at Swedbank, said on Tuesday. […]
The Presidium of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK) has confirmed on Tuesday that industrialists welcome the government’s plans to increase the minimum monthly wage once again in July. […]
While Ukraine‘s government forces are fighting pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Donbass region, Western leaders are engaging in a tense diplomacy game with Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]
Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis believes that Sweden‘s decision to phase out nuclear power would act as a stimulus for Lithuania’s new nuclear power project, which has stalled with officials saying that they are consulting with Latvia and Estonia, the potential regional partners, and with Japan’s Hitachi. […]
China wants to develop friendly relations with Lithuania after they soured when Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the Dalai Lama in Vilnius in 2013, the Chinese’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Hua Chunying said in a statement published on the ministry’s website on Tuesday. […]
The Soviet statues on the Green Bridge in central Vilnius will not be removed from the Register of Cultural Monuments, a special panel at the Department of Cultural Heritage, which evaluates immovable cultural heritage objects, decided on Tuesday. […]
For over a decade now we in Lithuania are being told that Germany is always indulging Russia. This line of criticism has lost some steam recently, after Angela Merkel played a crucial role in adopting hard sanctions on Russia. However, recent efforts by her and French President François Hollande to find a diplomatic solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict have rekindled suspicions that there are plans to indulge Russia and betray Ukraine. […]
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