Syrian refugees in Turkey
Politics

Lithuania to resettle 70 refugees from Turkey

Lithuania intends to resettle 70 persons from refugee camps in Turkey. “We have an embassy in Turkey, which will make it easier for us to handle the documents and communicate with the people, carry out selection and checks,” Interior Vice-Minister Elvinas Jankevičius told BNS in his explanation of the reasons behind the choice of the country. […]

Vilnius' Sport Palace
Society

Jewish rabbis inquire about Vilnius’ Sports Palace project

Jewish Orthodox rabbis visiting Lithuania on August 26 have inquired about the government’s and the Vilnius municipality’s plans of renovating the former Sports Palace building in the territory of a Jewish cemetery ( the old Jewish cemetery known as Piramont – TLT). […]

Kremlin
Uncategorized

Lithuania condemns illegal Russian court’s verdict for Ukrainian citizens Sentsov and Kolchenko

Lithuania strongly condemns today’s decision by the Rostov-on-Don Court of the Russian Federation to sentence the Ukrainian citizens Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko, reads the letter sent by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin on 25 August, Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. […]

Davos 2015
Foreign affairs

Grybauskaitė gets invitation to Davos Economic Forum

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has received an invitation to the next year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the President’s Office confirmed to BNS on August 25. […]

Bas Lansdorp
Economy

Space-travel entrepreneur will visit Lithuania

Danish businessman Bas Lansdorp, CEO of Mars One, a company that plans space expeditions to Mars, will be speaking in the second Vilnius Innovation Forum ‘Innovation Drift‘, organised by the Ministry of Economy of Lithuania. The objective of an ambitious project is not only to take people to Mars but also to provide habitable conditions to live in the red planet independently, www.innovationdrift.com reported. […]

Kruonio hidroakumuliacinė elektrinė (HAE)
Energy

Electricity prices in Lithuania fell by 12%

The average electricity price in the Nord Pool Spot Lithuanian bidding area on 17-23 August was EUR 45.54/MWh. Compared with the previous week, the price fell by 12 percent. […]

Vytautas Stasiūnas
Energy

Gas rebate model is not functioning in Lithuania

Energy experts say that the model applied to consumers by state enterprise Lietuvos Dujų Tiekimas for recovery of overpayments for gas, which accumulated from January 2013 through April 2014, is faulty. Energy experts arrived to the conclusion after calculating that Lietuvos Dujų Tiekimas, company engaged in gas import and sales, returned in January-July 2015 only EUR 2.5 million of the EUR 34 million of overpayments. […]

Looking for the Baltic amber
Society

Baltic amber attracts world famous scientists to Lithuania

August 26-30 June 2015, Vilnius will bring together dozens of the world’s most prominent researchers in gemmology from almost 30 countries worldwide. In the IGC‘2015 international conference held in Vilnius University, the latest trends of identification and research technology of precious minerals as well as prevalence of fakes and falsification of gemstones will be discussed, tourism.lt reported. […]

Arvydas Sabonis, Horacio Muratore, Loreta Graužinienė, Edis Urbanavičius ir Mindaugas Špokas (A. Petrulevičiaus nuotr.)
Sports

I’ve come to see Lithuanian phenomenon – FIBA president in Vilnius

President Horacio Muratore, who is currently in Lithuania on his first visit, says he’s come to see himself the phenomenon of basketball success in Lithuania and will suggest this experience to other countries. […]