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Year: 2015
Economy
Lithuanian PM says higher pensions won’t derail welfare system
Lithuanian government’s plans to increase pensions early in 2016 would not dig Sodra, the state social insurance fund, into a deeper financial hole, the prime minister said. […]
Economy
Lithuania’s environmentalists to inspect green waste processing by general public
As of 1 August, the environmentalists throughout Lithuania are closely monitoring whether the general public processes the green waste properly and whether it complies with the prohibition to incinerate that type of waste. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian foreign minister going to Ukraine
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius is on Thursday going to Ukraine for a two-day visit and is scheduled to meet with the country’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and other officials. […]
Society
Lithuanian MP wants ban on wearing burqas in public, activists disagree
As Lithuania prepares to receive several hundred refuges, Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas National Security and Defense Committee, suggests introducing a ban for wearing Muslim burqas in public, saying that they might pose threat to national security. […]
Society
First refugees could reach Lithuania in January, interior minister says
Lithuania’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that first refugees could come to Lithuania in January 2016. […]
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Putin holds Russia’s Security Council meeting over more shelling of Donbas
Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a prompt meeting with permanent members of the Security Council of Russia, the Kremlin press office said on Wednesday. […]
Politics
Politics
Lithuanian PM wants to raise pensions in early 2016
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius wants pensions in Lithuania to be raised in early 2016, instead of the middle of the year. […]
Economy
Lithuanian government backs car registration ban for fine dodgers
The Government of Lithuania on Wednesday backed the Ministry of the Interior’s proposal to introduce a ban to issue or replace driver’s licenses to drivers who do not pay fines for traffic rules violations. […]
Economy
Indie developers JetCat Games receive first venture capital in Lithuanian gamedev industry
JetCat Games, founded by three game developers from Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, has just marked a new milestone in the Lithuanian gamedev industry by becoming the first game developer to receive venture capital from a Lithuanian risk capital fund. The indie game development company, which moved to Vilnius almost a year ago, has just received EUR 100 000 from Lithuania-based venture fund Practica Capital. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian parliament speaker meets Saakashvili in Odessa
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė has met with Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president and now the government of the Ukrainian Odessa region, and said local people hope for a breakthrough that would open up a new stage in the country’s history. […]
Economy
Lithuanian president says market has to regulate milk prices
Despite a difficult situation in Lithuania’s milk sector, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that prices have to be regulated under market conditions rather than artificially. […]
European Union
Refugee relocation causes cultural anxiety in Baltic states
The Baltic states, along with other European Union nations, have agreed to take in a portion of refugees that have been fleeing wars in the Middle East. Diminutive though these numbers are, the fact that the refugees come from predominantly Muslim countries seems to inspire some fears among Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians. […]
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Economy
Foreign affairs
Lithuania should expand circle of friends in Russia, says Ambassador Ušackas
The European Union‘s Ambassador in Moscow Vygaudas Ušackas says that Lithuania should work to expand its circle of friends in Russia, possibly through more active involvement cooperation among universities. […]
Energy
Lithuanian MP says there are no ‘loyalty’ problems among Ignalina NPP staff
Artūras Paulauskas, the chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee, said after visiting Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant on Tuesday he had not seen problems in connection with loyalty of the staff of the strategic object. […]
Society
Lithuanian government earmarks EUR 50,000 for youth exchange with Ukraine
Lithuanian and Ukrainian governments intend to sign an agreement on youth exchange, with the Lithuanian Ministry of Social Security and Labour planning to earmark 50,000 euros for the projects next year. […]
Economy
Lithuanian game developer with 30m users aiming to triple revenue in 2015
With over 30 million downloads worldwide of their game development platform, Kaunas-based TutoTOONS is going from strength to strength. Established as a start-up two years ago by two Lithuanian game developers, the company now has 15 staff in Kaunas and Barcelona, and has ambitious plans for further expansion. One of TutoTOONS’s founders, Mantas Radvila, makes no secret of the fact that he had a chance to settle in the US and develop his business there, but chose Lithuania instead. DELFI, a Lithuanian media network, caught up with Mr Radvila to discover the reasons behind this decision, and what the secret of the company’s success is. […]