The Government of Lithuania on Wednesday backed an inter-institutional action plan for promoting non-discrimination and will allocate over EUR 1.4 million for research and promotion of public tolerance towards groups suffering from discrimination. […]
EU foreign ministers are keen to quickly add names to the Russia blacklist, according to draft document prepared for emergency meeting on 29 January, EUobserver reports. […]
A manual prepared by the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence on what to do in case of war and accidents is to be distributed to school libraries across the country. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the President of the Lutheran World Federation, Bishop Munib A. Younan, who is on his first visit to Lithuania, the presidential press service said. […]
The Emergency Call Centre received a phone call on Wednesday from a woman claiming there was a bomb placed underneath the floating LNG terminal in the seaport of Klaipėda, west Lithuania. Emergency services were alerted immediately and people evacuated from the embankment. No explosives were found. […]
The European Commission has requested that Klaipėda Port terminate the privilege to lease land to companies without a tendering procedure if a company has purchased buildings or other structural objects. The daily Verslo Žinios reports that companies operating in the port fear that their investments will remain unsafeguarded if such a requirement is implemented. […]
Analysts at the Russian Institute for Strategic Research (RISI), a Moscow-based think tank that pushed hard for Russia to invade Ukraine, are now urging Moscow to overthrow Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko. […]
Here’s a week full of recommendations of how to spend your free time in Vilnius. Music, art, gastronomy, bar-hopping, cinema and sports – but please, don’t try to experience everything at the same time. […]
Members of the Belarusian opposition have turned to Lithuanian politicians for help over leadership of the European Humanities University (EHU) which is operating in Vilnius, saying it is transforming the exiled university into Russia’s fifth column, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
Russia should take responsibility for the Mariupol attack that claimed civilian lives, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. […]
On 27 January 2015, Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, together with the delegation led by the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in Auschwitz, Poland. […]
Latvian President Andris Berzins says it is impossible for him to attend the 9 May “victory day” celebrations in Moscow. […]
Natural gas supply and trading company Litgas, part of Lietuvos Energija energy company group, will start supplying natural gas to Estonia from February. Litgas is the first company in Lithuania and one of the first in the Baltics which will supply natural gas to customers in other countries, the company said. […]
Russian people are living in an alternative reality created for them by President Vladimir Putin, one completely disconnected from the rest of the world, says German political scientist Andreas Umland, senior research fellow, at Kyiv-based Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation. […]
On Tuesday, an International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony took place in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day coincided this year with the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Lithuanian Ambassador to the USA, Žygimantas Pavilionis, attended the solemn remembrance service. The Museum’s senior advisor, Arthur Berger, welcomed the gathering, that included a number of holocaust survivors and a large number of diplomats. […]
Lithuania has gone up six notches to rank 15th among 178 countries worldwide in the latest economic freedom ranking released by the US-based think tank Heritage Foundation. […]
Second-degree state pensions were granted to 98 Lithuanian residents who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, the Social Security and Labour Ministry said. […]
After member-states of the European Union have finally given their blessing to the Liliputas, a Lithuanian semi-hard cheese, the product will from now on be sold with a “protected geographical indication” logo. […]
With tensions flaring up again in eastern Ukraine after Russian-supported separatists attacked Mariupol, killing 30 civilians, policymakers and observers in Lithuania are particularly touchy when it comes to relations, or lack thereof, with Russia. Their ire can even fall on someone from their own team if he or she is as much as suspected of sympathies for Russia. […]
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