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Foreign affairs

Lithuania to send soldiers to fight ISIS

Lithuania’s minister of national defence has confirmed that the country may send up to 30 military instructors to Iraq as part of a US-led mission to fight the Islamic State. […]

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CORPORATE

‘People thought Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler weren’t real refugees either’

The latest wave of refugees and migrants to Europe has barely touched Lithuania, and only 11 have been relocated to Lithuania out of its total quota of 1,105. However, many people have expressed a number of unclear fears about the migrants and refugees and seem to lack solidarity with Western Europe, which has received the most refugees and migrants, according to Eglė Verseckaitė, a professor at the University of Management and Economics (ISM). […]

Romuald Lipskij
Society

Belarusian spy’s sentence extended from 3 to 5 years

The Lithuanian Court of Appeals on Tuesday increased the sentence for Romuald Lipskij, a former employee of the state company Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation) convicted of spying for Belarus, to five years. […]

Gintaras Steponavičius
Politics

Liberal MP’s charity to reject donations from MG Baltic

The charity foundation of Gintaras Steponavičius, deputy chairman of the Liberal Movement, says it will no longer accept any donations from the business group MG Baltic which is involved in the so-called ‘Liberal scandal’. […]

Society

Black market awareness campaign begins

The government has begun its annual campaign to raise public awareness about the country’s problems with the black market economy. This is the fifth year that this campaign is held. […]