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Month: April 2015
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s MFA condemns terrorist attack in Kenya
The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) strongly condemned the brutal terrorist attack of 2 April in the university town of Garissa (Kenya), when 147 people, mostly students, were killed. […]
Defence
100 volunteers register for military service in 10 days
More than 100 volunteers registered for initial mandatory military service over the first ten days, Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said at the parliament on Tuesday in his presentation of the guarantees and privileges for conscripts. […]
Society
Media watchdog to decide on full ban of Russian TV channel in Lithuania
Lithuania’s Radio and Television Commission will Wednesday decide on issuing a temporary ban on all broadcasts of Russian-language channel RTR Planeta in the country. […]
Defence
NATO jets in Lithuania alerted by Russian fighter-jet
Fighter-jets of the NATO air policing mission in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, were scrambled on Monday to identify and accompany a Russian jet that was flying with its transponder switched off. […]
Society
Lithuania’s ex-security chiefs caught by surprise by investigation into their activities
Former chiefs of the Lithuanian State Security Department say they are unaware of the decision made by prosecutors to resume an investigation into suspected misconduct in the framework of the probe into alleged secret operations US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prison in Lithuania. […]
Politics
MP Mazuronis joins Liberal Movement political group
Member of Parliament Andrius Mazuronis on Tuesday officially joined the Liberal Movement group in the Seimas, Lithuanian parliament, which now has 12 members. […]
Defence
US may leave behind part of weaponry in Lithuania, chief of defence says
Lithuania’s Armed Forces and the United States government are in talks about leaving some of the US weaponry in Lithuania, Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says. […]
Politics
Army officer proposed as Lithuania’s new security chief
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has proposed to appoint officer Darius Jauniškis, the current head of the Army’s Special Operations Force, as the new head of the State Security Department. […]
Global LT
A Lithuanian and American Easter in Washington DC
According to the Christian calendar, Easter is the most important event during the year. The death and resurrection of Christ is the essence of the Christian religion. […]
Society
Lithuanian Independence Act signatory Ozolas passes away
Lithuania’s Independence Act signatory Romualdas Ozolas, who served as an MP in 1992-2000, passed away on Monday, the parliament’s Public Relations division said. […]
Uncategorized
EU ambassador to Russia warns against supplying arms to Ukraine
The European Union‘s (EU) Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas says that supplying arms to Ukraine would be a risky step, given the possible response on the Russian part. […]
Economy
EU Ambassador Ušackas: Lithuania should compete for capital leaving Russia
Lithuania should compete for the capital that is now leaving Russia, while special services should prevent possible attempts to influence the country’s internal policies, the European Union’s Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas said in an interview published on Monday. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian foreign minister leaves for Brazil
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is leaving for Brazil on Monday on an official visit. […]
Economy
Transhipment of Lithuania’s Klaipėdos Nafta grows
During March 2015, Lithuania’s Klaipėdos Nafta reloaded 354,000 tons of petroleum products into its storage tanks of oil terminal and Subačius fuel base (SFB), i.e., by 15.5 percent more compared to March 2014, when 306,000 tons were reloaded. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s social democrats already preparing for 2016 elections
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) has started preparing for parliamentary elections that are bound to take place in 2016. The party approved the list of candidates in single-member constituencies. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Is America losing the information war?
It would be hard to imagine Athenian generals worrying about the reporting of Spartan news or even, twenty-four centuries later, Douglas MacArthur caring much about media broadcasts from the land of the rising sun. But when General Philip Breedlove, the Supreme Commander of NATO, recently called on the West to make a greater effort to counter Russia’s toxic war of disinformation against Ukraine and its western allies, his concern made perfect military sense. In a world in which the dissemination of information is a key tactical element in violent conflicts, the West and America have remained far too passive in confronting both the insidious campaign of lies on Russian state-controlled media and the notoriously effective internet recruitment efforts of terrorist groups. […]
Energy
Lithuanian MP applauds constitutional ruling on LNG terminal
Opposition leader at the Lithuanian parliament, MP Andrius Kubilius, says the judgement of the Constitutional Court has at last safeguarded the LNG terminal. […]
Economy
Profits up by third in Lithuania’s insurance market
In 2014, insurance undertakings registered in Lithuania, according to unaudited data, earned EUR 24.1 million (LTL 83.2 million) of profits, a year-on-year increase of 36 percent. The highest profits were generated by the insurance activity; however, the overall result was significantly enhanced by profits from the investing activity, the Bank of Lithuania reports. […]
Defence
Russia’s militarization of Kaliningrad – sign of forthcoming military stand-off?
Media around the world are increasingly focusing on Kaliningrad as the possible next site of Russian-Western confrontation, as Moscow keeps dispatching military equipment to its enclave squeezed between Lithuania and Poland. […]