2015 - Page 195 of 202 - the Lithuania Tribune

Lithuanian freedom defenders call for supporting Ukraine

January 12, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian freedom defenders have called on politicians and diplomats to join support efforts for Ukraine, resist attempts to soften sanctions against Russia and to restore conscription to ensure Lithuania’s security. […]

Ukrainian soldier in Vilnius: Don’t have illusions that NATO will protect you

January 12, 2015 BNS 0

The Baltic states should not have any illusions about their NATO membership protecting them from Russia‘s aggression, says Yevhen Dykyi, a company commander of the Aidar Volunteer Battalion, adding that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia can become Russia’s next target, if it defeats Ukraine. […]

Kremlinologist Lilia Shevtsova: Putin is a mediocre leader pushing his country to collapse

January 12, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Lilia Shevtsova, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution, says that Vladimir Putin is a far cry from the shrewd and effective leader everyone, friends and foes alike, take him to be. On the contrary, she says, the Russian president is a shallow mediocrity who has not got a clue how to avert his country’s imminent collapse. […]

Lithuanian prime minister signs book of condolences at French Embassy

January 12, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Monday paid tribute to the victims of the recent terror attacks in France by signing a book of condolences at the Embassy of France in Vilnius. […]

Lithuania’s ruling coalition talks education and healthcare reforms

January 12, 2015 ELTA EN 0

In 2015, Lithuania’s ruling coalition is planning reforms in the areas of science and education as well as healthcare areas, according to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]

Vytautas Landsbergis calls for restoring conscript army in Lithuania

January 12, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s first post-independence leader, signatory to the 11 March Act, former speaker of the Supreme-Council-Reconstituent Seimas, Vytautas Landsbergis, has called for the restoration of conscription in Lithuania in the wake Russia‘s aggression in Ukraine. […]

NBA star Ilgauskas officially loses Lithuanian citizenship

January 12, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On Monday, retired NBA player Žydrūnas Ilgauskas officially lost his Lithuanian citizenship. The decree was signed by Lithuanian Minister of Interior Saulius Skvernelis. […]

Estonia translates all its laws into English

January 12, 2015 ELTA EN 0

As of Monday, all Estonian laws have been translated into English and are available on the English-language web page of Riigi Teataja (State Gazette). […]

Algimanta Pabedinskienė ir Dalia Grybauskaitė

President slams welfare minister for stagnant foster care reform and murky fund use

January 12, 2015 ELTA EN 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskienė on Monday and criticised her for stagnating reforms in children’s care homes and for the lack of transparency in the ministry’s use of funds. […]

Former president’s advisor acquitted in classified information leaking case

January 12, 2015 BNS 0

Daiva Ulbinaitė, former advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė, did not abuse civil service and did not reveal state secrets, a court ruled on Monday. […]

New US military rotation arrives in Lithuania

January 12, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

A new rotation of US soldiers, deployed in Lithuania with heavy combat equipment, the Stryker armoured personnel carriers, will begin their shift as of next week. […]

President Grybauskaitė invites Lithuanians to join remembrance campaign

January 12, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Over 1,500 Lithuanian schools, state institutions and organisations have responded to the invitation by the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania and President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is a patron of the initiative, to participate in the civic campaign Memory is Alive Through Testimony, which is dedicated to the Day of Freedom Defenders. […]

Klaipėda port resumes normal operations after storm

January 12, 2015 BNS 0

The Lithuanian seaport of Klaipėda resumed normal operations on Sunday evening after a storm that had halted vessel traffic during the weekend, a spokeswoman said on Monday. […]

January 1991 case expected to reach Lithuanian court this summer

January 12, 2015 BNS 0

Twenty-four years after the attempted coup of 13 January 1991, parties in the case are studying the materials of the exclusive Lithuanian investigation that concluded in the end of last year. […]

Lithuanian communities in Belgium and Ireland join traditional 13 January run

January 12, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Last Saturday, 10 January, the 24th international run, the Road of Life and Death, dedicated to commemorate defenders of Lithuania’s freedom, took place in Lithuania, Belgium and Ireland. Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also took part in the event. […]

Inga Sadaunikaitė-Kozhevnikov (with a flag) organized a team of runners in response to an invitation from Vilnius. Photo by Darius Kuzmickas

US Lithuanians organize 13 January run in Portland

January 12, 2015 Laurynas R. Misevicius from Portland 0

When an e-mail from Vilnius came with an invitation to join the traditional annual run “On the Road of Life and Death”, we were listening to Brahms’ piano concerto in Portland performed by a student of the prestigious Rice University in Houston (Texas), Lithuanian pianist Rūta Kuzmickaitė who was born five years after the historic events of 13 January 1991. She had returned for holidays to her family in Oregon. […]

Lithuanian ambassador to Ukraine to quit diplomatic service

January 12, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Petras Vaitiekūnas, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania to Ukraine, has decided to quit the diplomatic service after returning to Vilnius once his term of office ends. Vaitiekūnas’, 61, diplomatic career spanned over two decades, vz.lt reports. He served as Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs between 2006 and 2008. […]