Defence
Year: 2015
Politics
Lithuanian transport minister not to resign after aircraft disaster
Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Sinkevičius has not rejected the possibility of resigning after the aircraft An-2 disaster. However, at first the minister said he would like to know more details and offered to wait for the causes of the disaster to be clarified. […]
Society
Rescuer suggests crashed Lithuanian An-2 plane could have been flying without rescue gear
Chief of the Lithuanian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, Commander Artūras Andrušaitis, said on Friday that the An-2 airplane that crashed into the Baltic Sea may have not had all the necessary rescue equipment aboard. […]
Culture
Everything you always wanted to know about Lithuania – in a myth-busting mock game show
Is it true that Lithuanians like their soup pink, put herrings into bedsheets and are the inventors of basketball? A witty presentational video instructs on some peculiarities of the Baltic nation. […]
Global LT
Lithuanian professionals from New York and Chicago join forces
The Global Lithuanian Leaders network, a worldwide organization for Lithuanian professionals, recently collaborated with the Enterprise Lithuania group and made a visit to the United States at the end of April. […]
European Union
EU promises to Eastern partners are sufficient, Lithuanian president says
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, says that the promises made to Eastern partners are sufficient, although the West has not committed itself to accepting them into the EU in the future. […]
Economy
Air Lituanica stops operations
Air Lituanica, Lithuanian airline owned by the municipality of Vilnius, has announced that it is stopping operations as of Saturday. […]
European Union
Lithuanian president on Britain’s demands: Free movement is core value of EU
Free movement of persons is a fundamental value, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė stated in Riga on Friday, commenting on the United Kingdom‘s efforts to renegotiate the immigration rules with the European Union (EU). […]
Opinion
Reading, writing and reproduction: Danish sex education includes lessons on fertility
It has gained global attention that sex education in Denmark will now focus on fertility as well as avoiding unwanted pregnancies. The background for this change is that 25 percent of couples wishing to have a baby do not achieve pregnancy within the first year. Sex education is critical to ensuring the reproductive rights of men and women wishing to avoid pregnancy as well as those that strive to achieve it. […]
Society
Vilnius mayor and Swedish ambassador award Step Challenge winners
Mayor of Vilnius Remigijus Šimašius and Swedish Ambassador to Lithuania Cecilia Ruthstrom-Ruin participated in the ceremony of the Step Challenge awards hosted by the Embassy of Sweden to Lithuania, Vilnius Municipality reports. […]
Society
Vilnius University produces unique machine for CERN
The team of the Department of Semiconductor Physics of Vilnius University (VU), headed by professor Juozas Vidmantis Vaitkus, under the framework of the AIDA project was to study the possibility to use a microwave absorption technique for radiation monitoring in the proton irradiation facility at CERN. The Vilnius University team produced a cost-effective, flexible and easy-to-handle fluence monitoring system, VU said. […]
European Union
Lithuanian president: Much achieved since Eastern Partnership’s Vilnius summit
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that a lot has been achieved since the last summit of the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership that took place in Vilnius 18 months ago, stressing that the Eastern Partnership programme is a contribution to European security. […]
Society
Culture
Lithuania’s Monika & Vaidas proceed to Eurovision Song Contest finals
Lithuanian Eurovision fans celebrated on Thursday night as the country’s entry song, This Time, performed by Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila, qualified for the music competition finals on Saturday. […]
Culture
Sculpture to John Lennon unveiled in Vilnius
A sculpture of the legendary musician and songwriter of The Beatles, John Lennon, was unveiled in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
Foreign affairs
New-found love between Lithuania and Israel
With a thrust from the eurozone, affordable air-fares on the route Vilnius-Tel Aviv and just generally better Israeli-Lithuanian relations, tourist flows between the two countries have peaked lately. […]
Society
Lithuanian bankers contest London court’s ruling on their extradition
Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, former shareholders of Lithuania’s bankrupt bank Snoras, continue to fight their extradition to Lithuania, where they face fraud charges. […]
European Union
UK’s Cameron to start talks on EU treaty change in Riga
British Prime Minister David Cameron will start face-to-face discussions at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga on Friday with European partners on renegotiating Britain’s position in the European Union (EU) ahead of an in-out referendum by 2017. […]
Politics
Lithuanian defence minister apologises for poorly coordinated aircraft search operation
Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas has apologised to families of the missing An-2 pilots for poorly coordinated search and rescue operation. […]
Society
Body of one missing Lithuanian pilot found inside sunken plane
The body of one of the two missing pilots might have been discovered on Thursday night after thorough inspection of the An-2 airplane on the Baltic seafloor, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence says. […]