Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has nominated Vitas Vasiliauskas, the current chairman of the board at the Bank of Lithuania, for a second term in the post. The appointment has to be endorsed by parliament, the Seimas. […]
Emigration from Lithuania last year grew over 20% against 2014, according to the country’s statistics office. Meanwhile the number of arrivals dropped by a tenth. […]
The Lithuanian Court of Appeals has rejected the appeal of Belgian citizen Ibrahim Ahmadoun who is fighting extradition to the United States. […]
The Kansas City Chiefs, an American football team in the NFL, has signed Tautvydas Kieras, a Lithuanian track and field athlete, onto its team as a linebacker. The catch? Kieras has never played a game of professional or college football in his life. […]
At 8:30 local time on Saturday night, millions of people around the world turned off their lights and other electronic appliances for an hour to observe Earth Hour, an international tradition aimed at raising awareness about environmental conservation and efficient energy usage. In the centre of Vilnius, Lithuanians also observed the hour by gathering under the snow with a huge collection of candles. […]
Lithuanian-descent US Senator Dick Durbin is accompanying President Barack Obama and his family on their historic visit to Cuba. […]
Vilnius got a late seasonal dusting of snow on Saturday evening. […]
People dressed in green celebrated St. Patrick’s Day on Saturday on the banks of the river Vilnelė that was coloured in shades of emerald. […]
A Russian court passed a guilty verdict for Ukrainian armed force pilot Nadiya Savchenko in a case Lithuania regards as unlawful. […]
Lithuanian Airports is to invest €5 million in expanding the passenger terminal at Vilnius Airport to increase its capacity to five million passengers from the current four million capacity. […]
Helisota, a Lithuanian subsidiary of aviation giant Avia Solutions Group (ASG) is to repair Airbus helicopters under a new deal with the world’s largest helicopter manufacturer. […]
After two days of negotiations, Turkey and the European Union reached a compromise agreement on a plan to reduce the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe. At a summit concluding March 18, the heads of government of the 28 EU members and their Turkish counterparts approved the plan, which should take effect March 20. While the deal could help reduce the number of migrants arriving in Europe, questions remain about the signatories’ ability and commitment to fully enforce it. […]
In 2015, about a third of conscripts did not pass their military medical examinations. Why were a third of the conscripts turned away from the military, and is it possible to fool the military medical examination commission? […]
Sex reassignment surgery is as yet unavailable in Lithuania but the necessary legislation to allow the procedure is on its way. […]
While recent corruption scandals are damaging the ruling Social Demcrats’s opinion poll ratings, their coalition partners the Order and Justice party’s ratings seem unaffected by a raft of their own scandals. […]
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