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CORPORATE

Fewer workplace accidents reported in Lithuania

While the number of lethal accidents in workplace remains virtually unchanged this year, serious workplace accidents have declined, says Lithuania’s State Labour Inspectorate. In total, 27 people died and 80 were seriously injured at work […]

The arrival of Palemon to Lithuania, by Teofil Żychowicz, Lviv 1852, The National Library of Poland
History

How Lithuanians became descendants of Ancient Romans

History is a powerful tool and sixteenth-century Lithuanian noble houses were only too happy to ground their contemporary power in a historical myth which traced their ancestry to Ancient Rome.

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Politics

Discussion over new Labour Code continues

Discussions over the new Labour Code, passed by the parliament in June and vetoed by the president, continued on Thursday when Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with labour union leaders. […]

Linas Linkevičius
Foreign affairs

Russia’s accusations against Ukraine ‘as old as KGB handbook’ – Linkevičius

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Russia‘s accusations levied at the Ukrainian government of plotting acts of sabotage in Crimea are reminiscent of KGB methods when the victim is falsely accused of crimes which is used as a pretext for attack.

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