On 26 March, fifteen years ago, Vladimir Putin was elected the president of Russia. The moment coincided with the start of a global oil price boom that brought billions in additional revenue to Russia. […]
A delegation of US congressman will arrive on a visit to Lithuania this week, on 2 April. […]
Vilnius city bike self-service system CycloCity Vilnius will start this season on 1 April. There are 37 self-service terminals installed in Vilnius. The stations are distributed in close proximity to each other in Vilnius city, Vilnius Tourist Information Centre reports. […]
More and more, posts and commentaries on the Internet in Russia and even abroad are generated by professional trolls, many of whom receive a higher-than-average salary for perpetuating a pro-Kremlin dialogue online Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty web site RFERL.ORG reported. […]
With declining export and weakening economic growth, household consumption is becoming an ever increasing factor of economic growth. Having reached its peak ever since late 2007, consumer confidence provides hope that the negative influence of declining export to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) may be at least partially counterbalanced by growing consumption. On the other hand, it seems that Lithuanians will tend to save more this year, says Chief Economist of Swedbank, Vaiva Šečkutė. […]
Persons who fail to pay administrative fines in time should not be issued new driver’s licenses and gun permits, the Lithuanian Interior Ministry has suggested. […]
On Tuesday, an agreement on Vilnius City Council’s ruling coalition was signed. […]
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Lithuania’s Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at ‘A-‘. The outlooks are stable. The issue ratings on Lithuania’s senior unsecured foreign and local currency bonds have also been affirmed at ‘A-‘. The Country Ceiling has been affirmed at ‘AAA’ and the Short-term foreign currency IDR at ‘F1’, Reuters quotes the rating agency’s statement. […]
While the world watched Russia’s North Fleet with trepidation as it launched surprise exercises near the Arctic Circle last week, Vladimir Putin has quietly been arming another area inside Europe’s borders: Kaliningrad, the Russian seaport city in a region sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania, with convenient access to the Baltic Sea. Vessels from Russia’s Baltic Fleet have delivered fighter jets and Iskander missile launchers to the former German city, from where missiles could reach not just to Warsaw and Vilnius but Germany as well, Elisabeth Braw writes in the Newsweek magazine. […]
How to counter Vladimir Putin’s propaganda? The EU is trying to decide on a strategy. Meanwhile—you read it here first—the Nordic and Baltics states are steaming ahead with a very concrete plan that will soon offer Russian-language television in the Baltic states, where Russian minorities today almost exclusively watch Kremlin-directed TV. Call it Nordic noir versus the Kremlin, Elizabeth Braw writes in the World Affairs magazine. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is Tuesday going to the Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania. […]
Lithuania’s State Defence Council intends to hold a meeting later this week to present the updated concept of armed defence, says Valdemaras Sarapinas, the president’s adviser for national security. […]
The office of Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė have dismissed as “yet another information provocation” the hacker attack of the website publishing KGB activities, where the hackers uploaded a Soviet-era file on Grybauskaitė. […]
Lithuania may contribute some funds to a new protective cover to be built over the destroyed fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. […]
Dainoras Bradauskas has won the Monday’s tender to head the State Tax Inspectorate under the Ministry of Finance (VMI). A total of 5 candidates participated in the competition, even though 11 had registered to take part. […]
In 2014, average hourly labour costs in the whole economy (excluding agriculture and public administration) were estimated to be EUR 24.6 in the European Union and EUR 29.2 in the euro area. However, this average masks significant gaps between EU Member States, with the lowest hourly labour costs recorded in Bulgaria (EUR 3.8), Romania (EUR 4.6), Lithuania (EUR 6.5 or LTL 22.3) and Latvia (EUR 6.6) and the highest in Denmark (EUR 40.3), Belgium (EUR 39.1), Sweden (EUR 37.4) and Luxembourg (EUR 35.9), Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union reports. […]
Vilnius County Court on Monday rejected the prosecution’s request to question President Dalia Grybauskaitė in the criminal case of Chief Presidential Advisor Daiva Ulbinaitė. The chief advisor was acquitted from charges of revealing a state secret and abuse of office. […]
The Second Investigation Department under the Ministry of National Defence (AOTD) published its activity report for 2014. Based on the report, 301 people were denied access to work with classified information. […]
A former colonel from the Soviet Union had recruited an officer of the Lithuanian Air Force to spy for Russia, Lithuania’s military intelligence said on Monday. […]
Russia is using Lithuania’s public space to form an opinion against energy independence of Lithuania and the entire European Union (EU), the State Security Department (VSD) said in its 2014 report about threats to national security. […]
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