Big companies operating in Lithuania and public institutions should assess terrorism, cyber terrorism and social unrest risks and decide on the kind of protection strategy to use, risk experts say. […]
The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) has announced that participants of the 2015 self-government election in Lithuania spent nearly EUR 6 million on political campaigning. Their income was over EUR 4.87 million, debts – EUR 1.2 million. […]
A survey commissioned by news agency ELTA and conducted on 23-31 May by pollster Baltijos Tyrimai has revealed that 85 percent of the polled trusted the Fire and Rescue Department, 73 percent – the Church and 64 percent – the President’s Office. […]
A recent survey has revealed that Lithuanians still trust the most President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who has been re-elected for a second term of office, and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, who is also Chair of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party. The leader of the party Order and Justice MEP Rolandas Paksas is third most popular public figure. […]
Spending on research and experimental development (R&D) in the Lithuanian higher education and public sectors last year increased by 12.7 million euros, or 5.1 percent, from 2013, to 260.5 million euros, data from Statistics Lithuania shows. […]
Premises for secret meetings in the basement of the Lithuanian parliament should be equipped by the end of this year, says Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė. […]
The Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence has completed its inquiry into the An-2 airplane accident over the Baltic Sea. […]
The decision on the spelling of personal names in ID documents should be made by politicians, and they should not hide behind decisions made by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language, says Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
Kaunas District Court in Lithuania was evacuated on Friday following a bomb warning. It later turned out that the call was a hoax. […]
The Saber Strike 2015 exercise held in the Baltic states by NATO has nothing to do with the Alliance’s alleged preparations for some annexation, says the chief of the training, US Major General Mark McQueen. […]
After negotiations between Greece and its international lenders failed, the country’s future in the eurozone may not be settled until this autumn, says Lithuania’s Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius. Asked to comment whether Greek banks will open on Monday, the minister said he was not sure. […]
Georgia is disappointed with the stalling visa-free talks with the European Union (EU); however, it is fully capable of achieving the objective before the end of this year, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
On 18 June in Batumi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Tamar Beruchashvili opened a Honorary Consulate of Lithuania. It is headed by Georgian businessman, Honorary Consul Temur Ustiashvili with jurisdiction over Adjara, Guria and Megrelia, the Lithuania MFA said. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania has appointed Deputy Culture Minister Agneta Lobačevskytė as the head of the Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson. The candidate was proposed by Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė took part in the Nordic Baltic Midsummer celebration at the Vilnius University Botanical Garden in Kairėnai – a traditional calendar festival observed together by Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway for the third consecutive year. […]
Prosecutor Saulius Verseckas of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office said at the Court of Appeals on Thursday that the Labour Party‘s founder MEP Viktor Uspaskich should be sentenced to six years, while MP Vytautas Gapšys and Marina Liutkevičienė should receive respective conditional sentences of 18 months and one year. […]
I decided to dedicate one more essay in the “Putin’s Russia” series to Russian oligarchs because of one piece of news that attracted much less attention in Lithuania and internationally than it warranted: the former foreign minister of Sweden and one of the fiercest critics of President Valdimir Putin, Carl Bildt, accepted a consulting job at LetterOne, a Luxembourg-based company set up and run by Russian oligarchs. […]
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