The installation of surveillance equipment with Russian-produced seismic sensors has not been started yet. And its acquisition might be halted following the evaluation of risks, Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis says. […]
Ieva Januškevičiūtė, 20-year-old Lithuanian alpine skier, made her dream to take part in winter Olympic Games come true. At the age of 18, she broke Lithuanian national record of women’s alpine skiing FIS points. In 2013 she finished 81st in the Giant Slalom event in the World championships, and in 2014 she was the first Lithuanian woman to represent the country in alpine skiing in Sochi Olympic Games. […]
Even after the death of a person, their ideas live on, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said during the funeral of one of Russia‘s opposition leaders, Boris Nemtsov, in Moscow on Tuesday. […]
On 23 February – 1 March 2015, NATO fighter jets patrolling the Baltic airspace were scrambled to identify and escort aircraft flying near the Baltic states’ borderline in the NATO Baltic Air Policing Reaction Zone twice, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Mindaugas Lingė, the presidential advisor on internal affairs, says that the new system of electing Lithuanian mayors directly did not cause a revolution, but that people of the country themselves confirmed that the political system in Lithuania is in a good state. […]
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“We are pleased that the revised GDP for 2014 compared to 2013 increased by 3 percent rather than by 2.9 percent as it was announced in the preliminary estimates. The higher growth was driven by the growth of the construction industry, also, the Government’s decisions regarding housing renovation under the new programme,” Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Monday, referring to revised data from Statistics Lithuania. […]
On 2-5 March, arms control inspectors of the Lithuanian Armed Forces will take part in an inspection of a specified area in Azerbaijan as part of a Spanish-led inspection team, the press service of the Armed Forces said. […]
Vilnius has been ranked 4th in Europe as a city for fast-growth businesses. The list, compiled by influential US business publication Inc., rated European cities on the number of companies that made it to Inc.’s 5000 Europe list of rapidly-expanding enterprises, Invest Lithuania reports. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius had a phone conversation with his Estonian counterpart Taavi Roivas on Monday and congratulated him on his recent re-election, the Lithuanian government said in a statement on Monday. […]
In the meeting with UK’s Director for International Trade & Export Control of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Chris Barton, the Lithuanian Government’s Chancellor Alminas Mačiulis brought up the subject of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and its current relevance, the press service of the Government said. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will attend the funeral of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov who was murdered in central Moscow on Friday, the minister’s spokesman Kęstutis Vaškelevičius confirmed to BNS. […]
The Liberal Movement has improved its position in terms of the number of council seats following the Sunday local elections in Lithuania, compared to the last municipal elections in 2011. […]
If five current Lithuanian MPs who managed to get to the second round of mayoral elections win and take up posts as mayors, 5 constituencies of Lithuania would have to hold new parliamentary elections to find replacements for them, said Zenonas Vaigauskas, head of the Central Electoral Commission (VRK). […]
The governing Estonian party, the Reform Party, won the Riigikogu elections on Sunday with a narrow lead over the biggest opposition group, the Centre Party, while in all six parties will be represented in the 101-member parliament this time. […]
Increasing popularity of the Liberal Movement is the main take-away from Sunday’s local elections in Lithuania, political experts say. […]
Representatives of the Liberal Movement and the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats agreed on Monday to seek setting up a ruling coalition in the capital city Vilnius. […]
Briton Mark Adam Harold will be the first foreign national to be elected to a local government in Lithuania. The candidate with the Liberal Movement party was voted into Vilnius City Council after Sunday’s municipal elections. […]
Minority literature studies have a long and diverse history. Since its establishment nearly 25 years ago in the Western academia as well as in the public discourse in the West, it has been accompanied by the critique of the Western Canon in light of liberal pluralism. This critique has led to many revisions of the curriculum, which later provoked a conservative response (especially in the US) and, as some critics claim, minority literature has ended up in a kind of cultural “reservation area”. However, it has been developing as a field of research and, as we can see from the reemergence of conferences and projects on the subject, it is still a hot topic. […]
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