Lithuanian basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis, who is the president of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, has been the face of the launch of German retail chain Lidl in the country – but that may prove a problem ahead of the Olympic Games. […]
Reducing the requirements for a referendum on dual citizenship would violate Constitutional law and the constitutional principles of harmony, legal statehood and responsible governance, according to the Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs. […]
Danske Bank has sealed an agreement to lease a 12,000 square metre business centre in Vilnius which is still under construction. It is the largest lease transaction in the Lithuanian market this year. Danske Bank […]
Representatives from 12 foreign embassies, including five ambassadors will participate in the LGBT Baltic Pride parade which will take place in Vilnius on June 18. The chairman of the Lithuanian Gay League board Vladimir Simonko […]
The National Minorities Department has begun its Roma integration project. […]
“I’m Not from Here”, a film by Lithuanian director Giedrė Žickytė and Chilean director Maite Alberdi, has been nominated for the European Short Film 2016 Award. […]
Some Lithuanian universities spend 80% of government funding on administration rather than on students – a simple reform would be to link government funding to student numbers but according to leading experts, this is just one of the areas that needs to be tackled if the country is to develop a competitive education system. […]
FIBA has published an expanded list of Lithuanian basketball player candidates for the Olympics – despite Lithuanian national team coach Jonas Kazlauskas‘ promise that he would only publish the list after the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) finals. […]
The Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD) suspects that another incident occurred last week at a nuclear power plant that Belarus is building in Astravyets, just 50 kilometres from Vilnius. […]
Speaking in Russian-occupied Crimea, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko on Friday gave the clearest sign yet that the Kremlin plans to expand its efforts to mobilize Russians and Russian speakers in the former Soviet republics and Baltic states, people she says are loyal to their new countries but remain Russian compatriots. […]
While banks in Lithuania are resilient enough to possible shocks in the financial markets, a possible burst of the real estate bubble in Scandinavia presents a potential hazard, according to Lithuania’s central bank. […]
During a press conference in Vilnius, Ben Hodges, the commanding general of the US Army in Europe, said that the US and other NATO countries were tired of responding to unexpected moves from Russia and that they would have to take the initiative. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says increasing the country’s defence capacities and strengthening social security are the key tasks for her second year of the presidential term. […]
A married gay couple continues to fight Lithuanian migration authorities that refuse to grant one of the male spouses residency permit. […]
Proposals considered by the Lithuanian Parliament would raise social insurance contributions that small businesses have to pay into the system and expand benefits for parents. The parliamentary Social Affairs Committee has endorsed a proposal to […]
The EU needs to invest in the electricity sector if EU targets to reduce emissions and boost growth are to be met, according to the president of European electricity industry association, Eurelectric, Antonio Mexia, who […]
The international military exercise Iron Wolf 2016 began on Monday and is a part of the international exercise Sabre Strike 2016. NATO troops began the redeployment exercise Dragoon hike on Sunday as part of the […]
Lithuania’s social democrat Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has been gradually losing voters’ favour, a new poll suggests. […]
The board of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party has decided to appoint the prime minister’s adviser, Justas Pankauskas, to the post of interior vice-minister. […]
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