One of the detained ships of state-controlled company Lietuvos Jūrų Laivininkystė (Lithuanian Shipping Company, or LJL), which is facing bankruptcy proceedings, has returned from the Polish port of Gdansk to Klaipėda, Transport Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius confirmed on Thursday morning. […]
The United States remembers the 75-year-old Welles Declaration as “an indelible sign of our shared commitment to freedom, sovereignty, and territorial integrity”, United States Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday. […]
On 15 July, John Erland Østergaard, the founder and director of the Danish company Blue Ocean Robotics, and Thomas Solupajev-Ronlev, partner in the company’s Lithuanian subsidiary, paid their third visit to Panevėžys. During their previous visits the businessmen visited the robotics laboratory of the Panevėžys Faculty of Kaunas University of Technology, Panevėžys Mechatronics Centre, and introduced their company to the city’s mayor and other politicians. […]
Russia is looking back on its Soviet past and is increasingly using the methods of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in an article published on Thursday. […]
A ceremony will take place in Vilnius on Thursday to celebrate 75 years since the Welles Declaration by which the United States condemned the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. […]
It is crucial for the Baltic states to develop a joint mid-range air-defence system, counter hybrid threats and strengthen regional cooperation, Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said on Wednesday after meeting with his new Latvian counterpart, Raimonds Bergmanis, in Vilnius. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday handed letters of credence to Sigutė Jakštonytė, the country’s first ambassador to the Republic of South Africa. […]
Renovation works of the synagogue on Gėlių Street in Vilnius has been started, the Department of Cultural Heritage said on Tuesday. […]
The company Lithuanian Shipping Company (LSC), whose vessels remain arrested in foreign ports and which suffers from an extremely complicated financial situation, will have to file for bankruptcy, said Lithuanian Transport and Communications Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius after a meeting with President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday. […]
State company Lithuanian Railways, which is 100-percent owned by the Ministry of Transport and Communications, is acting like a state within a state, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė, adding that the company’s “lawlessness and irresponsibility” can cost very dearly to all taxpayers. Her comments came after a meeting with Transport and Communications Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius. […]
The Labour Party, which is part of Lithuania’s ruling coalition, issued a statement on Wednesday, calling the country’s decision to accept refugees “a mistake”. […]
Five Lithuanians take part in the ITF international tennis tournament in Vilnius, the President’s Cup. Laurynas Grigelis and Dovydas Šakinis advanced to the second round while Julius Tverijonas, Lukas Mugevičius and Tadas Babelis lost in the first round. In the doubles, three Lithuanian pairs have already qualified for the quarter-finals. […]
Thirty percent of Lithuanians who live abroad have no plans to return to Lithuania, a survey of expatriates for the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has revealed. […]
Before the start of the Baltic Investors Forum on June 4–5 in Vilnius, some of the world’s most prominent economists shared their insights on major economic threats facing the world in the nearest future. […]
The Lithuanian society is not ready for same-sex partnerships, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė believes. […]
Saulius Skvernelis, Minister of Interior of Lithuania, instructed his staff to draft a new procedure which will significantly ease and speed up the process for non-EU companies planning to invest in Lithuania. […]
It is mind-boggling that the question of dual citizenship remains unresolved. Since the 1990s, Lithuania’s population has been in decline. Emigration coupled with low birth rate continues to drive down the number of people living in Lithuania. […]
The first group of refugees from Africa and the Middle East should be resettled to Lithuania in January 2016, the government’s officials say. […]
The new practice of the European Court of Human Rights on regulation of same-sex relationships is significant for Lithuania, says a lawyer of the Vilnius-based Human Rights Monitoring Institute. […]
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