Month: May 2016

Arvydas Sabonis, the legendary basketball center, has been reelected to head the Lithuanian Basketball Federation for another term. […]

Lithuania’s death rates from overdoses twice EU average

The European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction has said that Lithuania’s mortality rate due to drug overdoses is more than twice the EU average. […]

Lithuanian paramilitary volunteers may be allowed to keep weapons at home

Amendments are making their way through Lithuania’s parliament to allow members of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union, a civilian paramilitary organization, and of the National Defense Volunteer Forces to acquire and keep semi-automatic weapons and ammunition at home. […]

Lidl opening-day food prices to undercut competitors by more than half

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With only a few days until the Lidl supermarket chain opens its doors in Lithuania, some of the prices of products in its stores are becoming clear. […]

Partisan documents found hidden in magazine of gun in northern Lithuania

Former members of Lithuania’s anti-Soviet resistance movement have found documents from the Šatrija partisan territorial unit in the Telšiai district in northwestern Lithuania, LNK Television reported on Monday. […]

Nerijus Numavičius, Diana Dominienė and Žilvinas Marcinkevičius

Anti-fraud police raid Maxima group director’s home and office

Lithuanian Law-enforcement officers have conducted searches at the office and home of Diana Dominiene, a director of the Lithuanian unit of Bertona Holdings Limited – a company controlled by Nerijus Numavicius, the largest shareholder of Vilniaus Prekyba. […]

MG Baltic vice-president released from custody

A Vilnius court has rejected the prosecutor’s request to extend the remand of Raimondas Kurlianskis, vice-president of MB Baltic, one of the country’s biggest business groups. […]

Lithuanian government issues €25m bonds

The Lithuanian government issued bonds on Monday worth €25 million with the average return of 0.041%. Nasdaq Vilnius, which handled the emission, says that investors lent to Lithuania for between 0.02% and 0.05%. The latest […]

Basir, Lithuanian-speaking Afghan refugee, accepts job offer from MEP

Abdul Basir Youssuf, the Afghani NATO interpreter who had worked with Lithuanian soldiers in Ghor province and was granted asylum in Lithuania after a plea for help on Youtube in Lithuanian, has accepted a job at a resort offered to him by Lithuanian MEP Antanas Guoga. […]

New airlines opening range of new routes from Lithuania in June

A range international carriers are opening new routes are from airports around Lithuania in June, with Vilnius and Palanga seeing three new airlines operating from their airports […]

Lithuania’s energy regulator cuts electricity rates

Lithuania’s energy price regulators have released new rates of electricity for household users, cutting the price 5.4% on average. The new rates, set by the National Commission for Energy Control and Prices, will come into […]

Lithuania drops to 30th place in world competitiveness rankings

Lithuania has fallen to 30th place in the latest annual IMD World Competitiveness Rankings for 2016 though it remains a regional leader. […]

Palanga extends lifeguard hours to safeguard swimmers

Lifeguards at the beaches in Palanga will work an extra two hours every day in the summer until 8 pm in an effort to reduce incidents and in response to the many people who go for a swim in the evening. […]

Lithuania’s tourist numbers up significantly in first quarter

Lithuanian hotels and accommodation providers received close to half a million (468,800) tourists during the first quarter of this year, 12.2% more than in the same period in 2015. The numbers of local tourists increased […]

Liberal politicians Eligijus Masiulis, Remigijus Šimašius, Linas Kvedaravičius

First polls after ‘Liberal scandal’ show major shake-up in party rankings

A voter survey conducted after the “black Thursday” on May 12 when news broke about bribery suspicions against former Liberal leader Eligijus Masiulis shows that voters have reacted strongly to the “Liberal scandal”. […]

New Moscow airport built by Lithuanian company opened by Medvedev

The new Zhukovsky or Ramensky Airport in Moscow built by Lithuanian company, Avia Solutions Group was opened in the Russian capital yesterday. The Russian government official website reported that the airport would be presented to […]

Lithuanian ‘needs to reduce taxes on labour’