With Iran eager to enter the global oil market and both Russia and Saudi Arabia desperate to stay in the game, the two countries’ recent agreement to freeze oil output should be taken with a grain of salt, says Lithuanian energy expert Romas Švedas. […]
Another Tolstoy classic, Martin the Cobbler, is being filmed on location in Lithuania following the success of the BBC’s epic production of War and Peace in Lithuania. […]
Here are some events to look forward to in Vilnius this weekend (2/27-2/28) […]
Russia cannot last long in its present state of “quasi-war” with the West, says Lithuanian poet and Yale professor Tomas Venclova. The tension will lead to a collapse within a few years, he believes. […]
Corruption suspicions in several Lithuanian ministries have severely damaged the government’s ratings, a new poll shows. Popularity of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and his party, the Social Democrats, has suffered as well. […]
Russia’s provocative actions and NATO‘s build up in the Baltic Sea region may lead to confrontations, the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces General Micael Byden has warned. […]
The Lithuanian Ministry of Energy says that it may run electric capacity auctions for reserve capacity for the Lithuanian electricity system starting in 2017. […]
Kaunas District court fined former National Land Service Director Daiva Gineikaitės and banned her from driving for three and a half years after finding her guilty of drunk driving. […]
On Thursday 18 February, the European Business Network (EBN) invited Lithuanian lawyer Ernesta Seiliūtė to speak about intellectual property and data protection in Lithuania. Seiliūtė is a lawyer with IPnovus Law, an international law firm specialising in intellectual property. Pirated software and other dubious programs can lead to poor data protection and data breaches, which can be extremely costly for businesses and individuals alike. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius called on the other Baltic States and the European Commission to step up efforts to make sure that a nuclear power plant being built by Belarus in Astravyets complies with safety standards. […]
Ambassador Toomas Kukk welcomed members of the diplomatic corps, Seimas members (parliament) and friends of Estonia in the Estonian Embassy in Vilnius to celebrate the 98th Estonia’s Independence day. […]
World football’s governing body FIFA will vote today on appointing a new president following the resignation of former president Sepp Blatter amid a raft of corruption scandals that hit the organisation. […]
On Thursday, officers of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service detained a Polish citizen who had more than a ton of raw tobacco aboard his Peugeot Boxer minivan en route from Lithuania. […]
Families that want their children to attend Lithuanian-language kindergartens in Vilnius District, a predominantly Polish-speaking region, are faced with a very difficult task and are often forced to opt for a Polish-language institution, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Friday. […]
An old Jewish cemetery site in Vilnius should be listed as a cultural heritage object under state protection, suggests Diana Varnaitė, the director of the Cultural Heritage Department. […]
Lithuanians are the least loyal staff among the Baltic, Scandinavian and Western European countries, according to a survey commissioned by construction equipment and modular space rental company, Cramo. […]
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