Culture
Year: 2015
Culture
Fakin’ Zeitgeist: Drinking game with Orhan Pamuk
Play a drinking game while reading novels by Orhan Pamuk. […]
European Union
European Union
EU’s Mogherini to come on official visit to Lithuania
Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, will pay an official visit to Lithuania on 2 July. […]
Politics
Lithuanian parliament wants top court stripped of right to rule on budget issues
The Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Budget and Finance is asking the country’s government to draft amendments to the Law on the Constitutional Court, which, if adopted, would strip the top court of the right to decide on budget and financial issues, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reports. […]
Economy
Lithuanian agriculture company to embrace organic farming
A strategic turn: Agrowill Group launches the development of a business model based on the principle of sustainable and environmentally-friendly organic agricultural production. […]
Culture
93 foreigners to come to Lithuania for language course
Ninety-three foreigners will attend Lithuanian-language courses at five Lithuanian universities during July and August. […]
Sports
Ričardas Berankis advances to second round at Wimbledon
The third Grand Slam of the year kicked off on Monday. The only Lithuanian tennis player in the tournament, 25-year-old Ričardas Berankis who is ranked 90th in the world, capitalized on unexpected withdrawal of his rival and qualified for the next round. […]
Society
Lithuanian TV watchdog to look into Russian-language channel’s programing
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania plans to evaluate actions of the Russian-language TV channel NTV Mir Lithuania, the watchdog’s chairman Edmundas Vaitekūnas says. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian leaders too busy to meet with visiting Polish president
Lithuanian leaders will have no time for outgoing Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski who is scheduled to come to Lithuania on Tuesday to receive an honorary doctorate from Vytautas Magnus University in the country’s second-largest city of Kaunas. […]
Opinion
Opinion: An-2 secrets better left untold?
One month after a small Lithuanian aircraft, An-2, crashed into the Baltic Sea on 16 May, the public still knows very little about what happened and why. If officials in charge of the investigation know more, they keep it to themselves. […]
Economy
European Commission to earmark EUR 548m for Rail Baltica
The European Commission on Monday proposed earmarking 548 million euros in support for the European standard gauge railway project Rail Baltica, worth 665 million euros in total. […]
Defence
Troops from Belgium and Luxembourg to come to Lithuanian for training
A company of Belgian troops are scheduled to come to Lithuania for six-week training in September, with a squad of Luxembourgian troops providing back-up, the Lithuanian army told BNS on Monday. […]
Defence
NATO jets scrambled twice over last week to accompany Russian planes
NATO fighter jets protecting the Baltic airspace were scrambled twice last week to intercept and escort two Russian planes flying in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea with their onboard transponders switched off. […]
Defence
Lithuanian committee chair calls for more funding for State Security Department
Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, is calling on the country’s political parties to increase funding for the State Security Department. […]
Society
Lithuanian prosecutors finishing indictment in January 13 case
Prosecutors from Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office are finishing the indictment in the January 13 case, with 69 people, mainly Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nationals, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. […]
Foreign affairs
Boehner in Vilnius: US supports Lithuania’s “enduring struggle with some neighbours”
The United States supports Lithuania’s “enduring struggle with some of your neighbours”, Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner said in Vilnius on Monday. […]
Foreign affairs
Economy
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