On 18 June in Batumi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Tamar Beruchashvili opened a Honorary Consulate of Lithuania. It is headed by Georgian businessman, Honorary Consul Temur Ustiashvili with jurisdiction over Adjara, Guria and Megrelia, the Lithuania MFA said. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania has appointed Deputy Culture Minister Agneta Lobačevskytė as the head of the Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson. The candidate was proposed by Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė took part in the Nordic Baltic Midsummer celebration at the Vilnius University Botanical Garden in Kairėnai – a traditional calendar festival observed together by Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway for the third consecutive year. […]
Prosecutor Saulius Verseckas of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office said at the Court of Appeals on Thursday that the Labour Party‘s founder MEP Viktor Uspaskich should be sentenced to six years, while MP Vytautas Gapšys and Marina Liutkevičienė should receive respective conditional sentences of 18 months and one year. […]
I decided to dedicate one more essay in the “Putin’s Russia” series to Russian oligarchs because of one piece of news that attracted much less attention in Lithuania and internationally than it warranted: the former foreign minister of Sweden and one of the fiercest critics of President Valdimir Putin, Carl Bildt, accepted a consulting job at LetterOne, a Luxembourg-based company set up and run by Russian oligarchs. […]
A demo military operation was performed in the Gaižiūnai training ground, central Lithuania, on Thursday in the framework of NATO’s Saber Strike 2015 exercise, observed by Lithuania’s president and generals of NATO countries. […]
Attempts to recruit Lithuanian citizens by foreign secret services, as well as cyber spying incidents, are intensifying, Darius Jauniškis, director general of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD), says. […]
Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, on Thursday proposed discussing the possibility to restore conscription for an indefinite period of time. […]
Lithuania plans to spend 1.46 percent of its GDP on defence next year, the country’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says. […]
American media recently reported that the United States was planning to deploy heavy weaponry in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, including Lithuania. Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius and Minister of Defence Juozas Olekas have confirmed that they are familiar with the plans. Will the move further escalate tensions with Russia? Laisvoji Banga radio talks to political scientist Kęstutis Girnius of Vilnius University. […]
Debt-ridden Greece will hardly be able to pay 1.6 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by June 30 without external financial support, Lithuania’s Finance Minister believes. […]
Insufficient discussions in the parliament was probably what led to the rejection of Nerijus Meilutis for the post of Lithuania’s prosecutor general, the country’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
EU ambassadors were united on Wednesday when they agreed to extend the existing economic sanctions against Russia until the end of January, 2016, Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the EU Raimundas Karoblis says. […]
The Lithuanian Seimas’ Legal Affairs Committee on Wednesday backed the use of Latin alphabet letters for the spelling of names and surnames of Lithuanian citizens in ID documents. […]
Lithuania and the United States intend to sign an intergovernmental agreement on closer military cooperation. […]
The sandy coast of Lithuania’s Curonian Spit has been selected among Lonely Planet‘s top ten beaches in Europe. […]
The Lithuanian government has given its approval to a proposal to increase the minimum wage by 25 euros, to 325 euros, from July. […]
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