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Month: March 2016
Culture
Lithuanian church voted most beautiful Catholic church in world
Lithuania‘s St. Peter and Paul‘s Church in Vilnius has topped the Catholicsay.com list of the 16 most beautiful churches in the world. […]
Economy
NASA to use new Lithuanian technology to detect injuries
NASA scientists are looking at using a technology invented by Dr Arminas Ragauskas, professor at Department of Telecommunications at the Kaunas University of Technology, to detect head injuries among astronauts. […]
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Order and Justice Party aims to double party membership to 20,000
Order and Justice party is committing itself to expanding its membership to 20,000 from the current 13,000, said the party‘s leader Rolandas Paksas. […]
Politics
Order and Justice party to unite with about 30 public organisations
During a congress later in March, Lithuania’s Order and Justice party, part of the current ruling coalition, will sign an agreement to unite with various political parties, public committees, non-governmental and public organizations. […]
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150 Lithuanians reported to have secret Swiss bank accounts
It has been reported that the State Tax Inspectorate (VMI) has received information about 150 Swiss bank accounts held by Lithuanians in the Swiss branch of one of the world’s largest banks, HSBC. […]
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Lithuania to make it easier for foreigners to buy land
The Lithuanian government is planning to soften the requirements for foreign nationals to purchase agricultural land. […]
Foreign affairs
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New list of Lithuanian KGB collaborators ‘contains recognisable names’
A new list of former KGB agents to be released will contain the names of about ten well-known Lithuanian public figures, according to the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre, which is investigating the archives of the Soviet security police. […]
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Bank of Lithuania wants it to be easier for businesses to take out loans
The Bank of Lithuania has suggested amendments that would ensure that businesspeople seeking loans from commercial banks would not have to use their personal assets as collateral in all cases. Other proposed measures would also ensure that businesspeople taking out loans wouldn’t take on too much debt. […]
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Lithuanian entrepreneurs go East
With a small domestic market, Lithuanian entrepreneurs are more and more often looking to foreign markets for opportunities to develop and expand their businesses. While many have been looking to the US or Western Europe, others have also begun glancing eastwards at markets like India and China. […]
Opinion
Minister Linas Linkevičius: NATO should stop feeding the Russian troll
NATO-Russian relations are where they are, at historic lows, because of what Moscow does, not because of how Western nations react to it, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius argues in an op-ed piece for Politico. Russia needs to prove it deserves to be spoken to, while holding meetings for the sake of meetings will be counter-productive. […]
Global LT
Sizzling reviews as Lithuania’s Drama Burger launches in Tampa
Lithuania’s Drama Burger has officially launched its first restaurant in the United States to sizzling reviews from the local media in Tampa, Florida. […]
European Union
Lithuanian MEP says Britain ‘dishonest’ in demanding EU exceptions
Britain wants all the privileges of being in the EU and none of the obligations, says Lithuanian MEP Zigmantas Balčytis commenting on the deal recently reached between the United Kingdom and the EU that is meant to stave off the possibility of Brexit. […]
Culture
Lithuanian production of Pushkin’s Boris Godunov receives award in Russia
A Lithuanian production of Alexander Pushkin’s play Boris Godunov, directed by Eimuntas Nekrošius at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, will be awarded with a Golden Mask in Moscow. […]
European Union
Lithuania requests €75 million support package from EU for dairy farmers
Lithuania’s Agriculture Minister has submitted a request to the European Commission for an additional €75 million in EU funding to support the dairy sector in Lithuania. […]
Defence
Lithuanian army paramedic convicted for spying for Belarus
A Vilnius court on Friday sentenced Andrey Osurkov, a former paramedic of Lithuania’s Armed Forces, to three years in prison for spying for Belarus. […]
Foreign affairs
Politics
‘Lithuanian president is pressuring government to resign’, claim Social Democrats
The Social Democrats claimed on Friday that Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has been subjecting Lithuania’s coalition to “obvious and continued pressure” which the party said may be aimed at making the current government resign. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian diplomats in Top 10 for breaking traffic laws in Berlin
In a city as big as Berlin traffic violations are to be expected. Berliners are particularly annoyed, however, when traffic violations go unpunished, that is, when they are committed by diplomatic staff of foreign embassies in Berlin. Lithuanian diplomats are among the top-ten violators of traffic rules. […]