The career of Lithuanian producer-musician Marijus Adomaitis, better known internationally as Ten Walls, took a serious hit when the artist’s homophobic rant on Facebook went viral. After a summer out of the public eye, Ten Walls returns with an apology and a project he says will redeem him with his LGBT fans. The latter claim, however, has left some unconvinced. […]
Six synagogues in Lithuania have been included into the list of monuments protected by the state, BNS reports. […]
During the session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 2 October, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with heads and representatives of major world and American Jewish organisations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]
On 3 October President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to Federal President Joachim Gauck on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of German reunification celebrated on Unity Day, the presidential press service said. […]
As Lithuania is approaching its goal of separating from the electricity network extending across the former Soviet Union and fully integrating itself into the energy system of Western Europe, Moscow might claim multi-billion-euro damages that Vilnius could be liable to pay based on a treaty signed 14 years ago. […]
Amid growing migrant flows to Europe, people fear that refugees will bring old forgotten diseases. However, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, has rejected such fears, saying they are groundless. […]
Lithuanian electricity distribution network operator Lesto and Lithuanian gas distribution network operator Lietuvos dujos will be reorganised. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going on an official visit to Switzerland on Tuesday, 6 October, at the invitation of Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga. […]
Discussions about the refugee crisis and how to solve it has moved from the European Union to the United Nations General Assembly, where most national leaders spoke about settling the conflicts in Syria and Iraq and fighting international terrorism. Among the highlights were the speeches and meeting of the presidents of the United States and Russia. […]
Journalist Rosvaldas Gorbačiovas has become the advisor for public relations to the Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė. […]
It is easy to list what Russia needs to put in place for its economy to grow successfully over the long-term and for its citizens to improve their lives: secure property rights, protection for investors, reliable commercial courts and significantly reduced volumes of regulation. Instead of strangling business at every opportunity and bending it to its will, the state should allow business to develop freely within the bounds of the law. […]
Raimundas Lopata, political scientist and advisor to Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, has slammed the foreign policy of President Dalia Grybauskaitė, saying in an interview published on Friday that her recent speech at the United Nations was “sterile”. […]
On Friday, the Baltic Assembly‘s (BA) Economics, Energy and Innovations Committee and Natural Resources and Environment Committee will convene in Kaunas to discuss the influence of the Russian embargo and the regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the Baltic states. […]
A group of Lithuanian MPs have suggested that parliament should have a say on issues concerning refugee resettlement. Meanwhile the ruling Social Democratic Party has offered a political agreement among Lithuania’s major parties, saying that an issue as sensitive as asylum seekers should not be made the topic for electoral campaigning. […]
Minister of Energy of Lithuania, Rokas Masiulis, is making a visit to the United States, where on Wednesday he met with Lisa Murkowski, Chairwoman of the US Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The meeting addressed export opportunities of energy resources from the US to Europe and Lithuania. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania, parliament, has approved amendments to the Law on Consumer Credit which are aimed at regulating the consumer credit market in order to promote responsibility of consumer credit lenders and their clients. […]
Statistics Lithuania has published demographic data on the occasion of the Day of Older Persons. It has transpired that the number of older people is on the rise in the country. […]
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