Riga
European Union

Lithuanian President to attend Eastern Partnership summit in Riga

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday and Friday is attending the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga. The summit will review the results of the Eastern Partnership programme achieved after the Vilnius summit held at the end of 2013 and will outline guidelines for further cooperation and development of the programme, said the presidential press service. […]

Economy

28 percent of managers in Lithuania justify bribery

Managers of Lithuanian companies are optimistic about anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABAC) measures applied by companies. However, almost half of them say that corruption is widespread. […]

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Uncategorized

Russia claims to have caught Lithuanian spy

Russia‘s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday it had detained a Lithuanian intelligence officer. Lithuanian officials have not provided any comment on the report. […]

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Global LT

Stockholm seminar discusses information challenges in Eastern Europe

Dr. Nerijus Maliukevičius, lecturer of Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences, Russian and East European Studies Centre, presented the report “Russia’s Use of Information Operations in the Baltic States” at the international seminar on “Information Operations as a Foreign Policy Tool – the Situation in the Baltic States and Consequences for Sweden” which took place in Stockholm on 19 May. […]

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Society

Rescuers locate floating object in Baltic Sea that might be related to An-2 crash

After an object has been located in the Baltic Sea, a helicopter was dispatched to the site to establish its possible connection to the crashed An-2 airplane, Lithuania’s Environment Vice-Minister Antanas Valys said on Wednesday. […]