Lithuanian prosecutors have decided to appeal against the court ruling to clear former commanders of the Soviet special militia unit OMON of charges, the Prosecutor General‘s Office said on Friday. […]
The United Nations (UN) Security Council is Friday holding an extraordinary meeting initiated by Lithuania to discuss the clashes in Ukraine that jeopardize the ceasefire mediated by Europe. […]
Lithuanians from across Ireland came together in Dublin last weekend to play some ball and raise funds for children with cancer in the Basketball Day. […]
The tech sector thrives in this Baltic state, and education in the STEM field is at the core of its growth. […]
On 4 June, Lithuania’s National Control Commission for Prices and Energy (VKEKK) adopted a decision to fine LESTO, state-owned electricity company, which will have to pay EUR 300,000 for the violations detected in the act of scheduled inspection. The company is also ordered to correct the regulated cost statements for the period 2011-2013, LESTO reports. […]
Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė has said she supports the initiative to hold a referendum on dual citizenship. […]
The Rail Baltica project became suspended for years in Poland, when it emerged that the environmental impact study of the border section between the Polish town Bialystok and the Lithuanian border is outdated, and a new survey has to be conducted; it does not affect the project’s development in the Baltic countries, Postimees Online reports. […]
Lithuania on Thursday officially opened its membership talks with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which currently includes 34 developed countries around the globe. […]
Your favourite book is admired by others? Cliché it out! […]
The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) condemns the bloody assault near Marinka village, close to the city of Donetsk, on 3 June by the Russia-backed separatists who used heavy weaponry, which had to be withdrawn according to the package of measures of the Minsk Agreements reached on 12 February 2015. […]
Former president of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus has undergone endoscopic examination of the bladder and a removal of the right kidney and ureter. The surgery was carried out on Thursday at Vilnius University Hospital Santariškės Clinics. […]
On 4 June Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas discussed NATO reassurance measures in the Baltic region, bilateral defence cooperation and other issues of security and defence at a meeting with Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Lithuania David Hunt, said the Ministry of National Defence. […]
The Norwegian company Devold, which is engaged in making knitwear, is building a new plant in Panevėžys Free Economic Zone, Lithuania. […]
Political observers say there were not surprised by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s statements on foreign policy she made in her State of the National Address on Thursday. The president’s observations were realistic, but at times too abstract, they say. […]
Vilnius Regional Court on Thursday cleared former commanders of the Soviet special militia unit OMON, Boleslov Makutynovich and Vladimir Razvodov, of war crimes and crimes against humanity in 1991. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė did not say much about the government’s work in her State of the Nation Address on Thursday as she hardly expects anything from it, the Seimas opposition says. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė made her annual State of the Nation address at the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, on Thursday. In her speech, the president mostly focused on national defence, security challenges stemming from Russia‘s aggressive policies, as well as emigration of working-age population. Grybauskaitė also stressed the need to work more on addressing social issues, particularly in childcare institutions. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Justice has drafted a bill that, if passed, would introduce the institution of partnership into the country’s Civil Code. However, the bill spells out that the possibility to form partnerships would only apply to opposite-sex couples. According to Justice Minister Juozas Bernatonis, there is no need to legalize same-sex partnership because there are hardly any same-sex couples in Lithuania. […]
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