Month: April 2016

A special governmental commission tasked with checking potential investors against national security interests says it has no objections to the takeover of Lukoil’s chain of petrol stations in Lithuania by Austria’s AMIC Energy Management. […]

What if Syrian civil war happened in Lithuania?

April 1, 2016 Lithuania Tribune 0

The Syrian civil war, which started five years ago, has devastated the country, killing 270,000 people and displacing half of the population. Public Radio International, based in the United States, developed an application that simulates the scale of the damage in terms of any other country of your choice. […]

What’s on in Lithuania this weekend

Looking for something to do in Lithuania this weekend? Here’s what’s on in Lithuania’s major cities: […]

In Belarus, a political transformation takes shape

April 1, 2016 STRATFOR 0

For two decades Belarus has clung to the past. Led by President Aleksandr Lukashenko since 1994, the country’s political system remains largely unreformed since the Soviet era. […]

Lithuania’s Seimas revokes milk price regulation

The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, Friday struck down a controversial piece of legislation adopted a week ago to regulate milk prices. […]

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One thing that many people do not know about the Lithuania Tribune is that we are a non-profit organisation (viešoji įstaiga – VšĮ). This means that any money we make goes into maintaining and expanding our English-language news coverage. […]

Sanjsuren Boldbaatar horseback riding with his family

‘Mongolia and Lithuania are both small, brave and proud nations’ – Honorary Consul

In a series about those remarkable individuals who promote Lithuania’s image abroad and build the country’s brand around the world, Sanjsuren Boldbaatar, Lithuania’s Honorary Consul in Mongolia, talks about his work for Lithuania. […]

Baltic states to use their mutual indistinguishability to their advantage

Lithuania‘s, Latvia‘s and Estonia‘s tourism bodies signed an agreement on Friday to swap their marketing trademarks in order to underline friendship among the three Baltic nations. As of May, Lithuania will use the adapted Estonian logo, Estonia will promote itself with Latvia’s former logo and Latvia will use the logo that used to represent Lithuania. […]

MP Povilas Gylys proposed for minister of the interior

The Lithuanian prime minister is meeting with MP Povilas Gylys who has been proposed for the post of minister of the interior on Friday. […]

Lithuanians spent 25% more in Poland in the last quarter of 2015

Lithuanians spent €78 million in Poland‘s shops in the three last months of 2015, according to the Polish Central Information Board (CIV) in a report on money spent in Poland by foreign shoppers. […]

Lithuanians spend largest portion of wages on rent in Baltic States

A Lithuanian needs to spend nearly 80% of the average wage to rent a one-room apartment in the centre of Vilnius, much higher than the proportion that people in other Baltic States have to spend. […]

Business confidence in Lithuania is improving but slowly

Lithuanian business sentiment improved in March as the confidence indicator rose to -1 from -5 in February, according to the Lithuanian Statistics Department‘s business trends and expectations survey data for March. […]

Lithuanian central bank warns banks may have to increase capital requirements

Lithuanian commercial banks may have to accumulate additional capital buffers for risk control, said Vitas Vasiliauskas, the head of Bank of Lithuania, at the Lithuanian Banking Association conference. […]

Lithuania‘s LNG terminal has started sinking

The LNG terminal in Klaipėda has started sinking due to an unusual accumulation of rust and deterioration in the metal plates that form the hull of the ship, the Klaipėda State Seaport authority has warned. […]

US moving from talk to action – Lithuanian military expert

The United States decision to deploy an additional armoured brigade to Eastern Europe illustrates the change in US policy in the region and a move from talk to action, said Lithuanian military analyst Deividas Šlekys on Žinių Radijas. […]

Schengen facing ‘real threat’, Lithuania’s border guard chief says

Free movement within the European Union‘s Schengen zone is facing a challenge, unless the EU effectively protects its external borders, says Renatas Požėla, the chief of Lithuania’s State Border Guard Service. […]

EC to discuss resuming food exports to Russia, says Andriukaitis

The European Commission hopes to soon reopen discussions with Russia on the resumption of exports of certain food products, including milk, to Russia, Vytenis Andriukaitis, the Commission’s member in charge of health and food safety, has said. […]

Privacy must be balanced against security in fight against terrorism – Grybauskaitė

April 1, 2016 www.lrt.lt 0

During her visit to Washington, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė said that, in the fight against terrorism, we must find a balance between privacy, human rights and security. In an interview with CNN, she also underscored the importance of NATO in the fight against terrorism. […]

PM Algirdas Butkevičius and Rolandas Paksas

Paksas to present candidates for interior minister post

Rolandas Paksas, the leader of the Order and Justice party, is presenting candidates to the post of minister of the interior to the for minister on Friday. […]

Turnover at Lithuania’s major shopping malls grew 10%