Russia, China, Venezuela and Angola ignored the recent informal UN Security Council meeting, organized by Lithuania, on the human rights situation in Crimea which was annexed by Russia a year ago. […]
Following false threat about a bomb placed at Vilnius International Airport received on 19 March, Lithuanian airports have started estimating financial damages they suffered as well as airlines and all companies operating in the airport. The damage claim will be forwarded to the author of the false threat. […]
EU leaders discussed the European Commission’s proposal for building an energy union, which aims to strengthen EU policies in five key areas – ensure transparent and secure energy supplies, complete the EU internal energy market, increase energy efficiency, promote innovations and pursue efforts for more renewable energies. […]
A hundred Lithuanian MPs have drafted Constitutional amendments that should pave the way for Rolandas Paksas, a member of the ruling Order and Justice party who has been impeached as president in 2004 and banned from running for public office since then, to run for parliament and president again. […]
On Friday, a partial solar eclipse was visible in Lithuania. […]
Young people of Lithuania will be able to participate in the work and travel program in New Zealand after the two countries completed negotiations, said the foreign ministers of Lithuania and New Zealand, Linas Linkevičius and Murray McCully. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) institutions intend to work out a strategic communication plan by June to “challenge Russia‘s ongoing disinformation campaigns”, heads of EU states and governments have agreed in Brussels. […]
Maccabi Tel Aviv won yesterday at home against the Lithuanian champions Žalgiris in a close match 79:72. Jeremy Pargo paced Maccabi by 26 points while Artūras Milaknis with 19 points led Žalgiris. Žalgiris was always close to the Euroleague champs during the match, but it was not enough and the Lithuanians fell to 4-7 in the top 16 stage while for Maccabi the numbers are upside down: seven victories to four losses. […]
The task of a diplomat is to maintain contacts with the authorities and society leaders, so dribbling basketball with the administration chief of the Russian president, playing buskashi with Afghans in Kabul – engaging in what one might call “sport diplomacy” – is part of the job. While such informal contacts might provide a wealth of insights into the unofficial workings of a foreign country, Vygaudas Ušackas, the EU Delegation chief in Russia, admits he is not “in the business of prophecies” to tell how long the Russian-Ukrainian conflict can last. […]
European Union leaders have decided to maintain economic sanctions on Russia until the end of the year. […]
Lithuanian law-enforcement officers on Thursday conducted searches in homes of several individuals in the framework of an investigation into operations of anti-Constitutional groups, the Police Department’s spokesman Ramūnas Matonis confirmed to BNS. […]
Assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was a shocking wake-up call for many all over the globe. Circumstances were more than eloquent – bullets hit Nemtsov right in front of Kremlin and merely one day before the planned protest march. […]
Italian Typhoon fighter-jets performing the NATO air policing mission in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, were scrambled on Thursday to accompany a Russian reconnaissance airplane. […]
The UN Security Council is holding a closed-door meeting on Crimea, initiated by Lithuania, later on Thursday. Russia, which annexed the Ukrainian region a year ago, is reportedly boycotting the meeting. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that much-discussed draft amendments to the country’s Labour Code will be good both for employees and employers and will make the labour market much more flexible. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has left for Brussels to attend a European Council meeting on 19-20 March, the presidential press service reports. […]
Social Democratic Deputy Parliament Speaker Gediminas Kirkilas says that the resignation of Andrius Kubilius as chairman of the oppositional conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) was a sensible step. […]
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