Lithuania’s minister of environment admits being increasingly sceptical about a new tender for exploration of shale resources, saying that no one may be interested in searching for gas in Lithuania amid low prices of crude and gas in the market. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday appointed Remigijus Bridikis as the deputy director of the State Security Department. […]
The former head of the Skype office in Tallinn, who established a start-up helping other start-ups find the best place to develop their businesses, has noticed that Vilnius distinguishes itself among other European cities for its suitability for developing new business. […]
Lithuanian MEPs Vilija Blinkevičiūtė and Zigmantas Balčytis of the Social Democrats and Liberal Antanas Guoga were the country’s most active members in the European Parliament over the 1st year of their term, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
By one of its definitions, hybrid war involves classical military actions as well as undermining activities, energy, economic and finance warfare and, most importantly, information warfare. This is the kind of hybrid war that Russian Federation is waging against Ukraine. However, in one of his articles, the Russian expert, Andrey Ilarionov mentioned, that rather from being just a conflict between two countries, the war between Russia and Ukraine is a full-scale confrontation between the West and Russia. Unfortunately, Georgia found itself on the front line of this fierce confrontation between civilizations and has hence become one of the hotspots of information warfare. […]
The German daily Berliner Zeitung was the first one to report about the resignation of Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini as OSCE special envoy in Ukraine and OSCE representative at the Minsk peace talks. This lady made her name in political and diplomatic quarters when the international commission she led published a report on the 2008 Georgian-Russian war. Her departure gives one hope that the conflict between Ukraine and Russia will not be given a Tagliavini treatment. […]
The Kremlin has not set any rules or issued any oral recommendations prohibiting state officials or the heads of state companies to mention the name of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. […]
NATO fighter-jets serving in the Baltic air-policing mission were scrambled seven times last week over Russian aircrafts. […]
The article Bronze Age Eurasian Population Genomics was publicized in the prestigious scientific journal Nature in June, presenting the findings of the international research project on the genetic testing results generated over the past few years. […]
A company of Portuguese troops is leaving Lithuania this week after spending four months in the country in training. […]
Following a conversation of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis, who was instructed to sack his deputy minister Vytautas Vigelis within a week, the Labour Party‘s leader Valentinas Mazuronis rushed off to the Government’s Office. The politician is convinced that the deputy minister was appointed lawfully, although the PM insists that Vigelis should be fired. […]
If they were able to choose the chief of the company they work for, only every thirtieth Lithuanian would like to be led by another Lithuanian, while every third of them would like their chief to be someone from a Western country, a poll conducted by cvmarket.lt reveals. […]
An additional 3-million-euro loan issued by SEB Bankas to Lietuvos Jūrų Laivininkystė (Lithuanian Shipping Company, or LJL), a financially-troubled Lithuanian shipping company with debts of more than 20 million euros, is a temporary solution, a deputy transport minister has admitted. […]
Some 44 cases of measles were reported in Lithuania this year by July 27, including 11 infected children and 33 adults. […]
Dalia Henke, the new leader of the Lithuanian World Community (PLB), says that expatriate Lithuanians agree to the planned referendum on dual citizenship only on three conditions. […]
Eurocopter 145 helicopter of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service is leaving for the Mediterranean region on Monday to join the operation Poseidon 2015 aimed at countering illegal migration. […]
The actions of the far-right group the Right Sector in Ukraine does not contribute to reforms and stability in the country, says Lithuania’s Ambassador Marius Janukonis. […]
There was a time right after World War Two when Lithuanians believed that the United States of America would swoop into a Soviet-occupied country and drive the Soviets away. These hopes were rather baseless, yet the USA did stand by its policy not to recognise the annexation of the Baltic states. The start of this policy is believed to be July 23rd, 1940, with the declaration to this effect by US State Secretary Sumner Welles. […]
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