United States Vice-President Joe Biden says his recent visit to Latvia has given him the impression that the Baltic states are “scared to death” of Russia and fear the possibility of Donald Trump being elected as the next US president. […]
Vilnius Airport is shutting down for 35 days in summer 2017 to upgrade its main runway that dates back to 1958. With the country’s biggest airport closed, this may prove an opportunity for Kaunas which […]
The ban on selling alcohol on September 1 has been successful in reducing alcohol abuse by minors who celebrate the start of the academic year on that day, specialists say. Specialists have concluded that the […]
The packaging deposit system, whereby buyers pay a deposit on most plastic bottles and cans when buying drinks, has significantly changed recycling and even buying habits of Lithuanian consumers. As of this year, buyers in […]
Provincial schools struggle to attract specialists to teach at the same time as low wages and poor conditions deter educators looking for work. Provincial Lithuania is in a peculiar position where there is fairly high […]
Though some supermarket chains recorded bigger beer sales this summer compared to last year June, a new trend is taking hold among Lithuanian consumers: they are are choosing non-alcoholic wine and beer with increasing frequency. […]
All alcohol buyers, irrespective of their apparent age, will from now on be asked to produce identification documents in most supermarkets across Lithuania. Critics of the initiative, proposed by the country’s majors retail chains, say it is a trick to exert pressure on politicians considering further alcohol sales restrictions. […]
The founding myth of Vilnius has many affinities with legends of Rome and other great cities. Though hardly historically accurate, it was necessary to legitimize the royal seat of a medieval grand duke. […]
A top-ranking US diplomat in charge of sanctions says he understands the Lithuanian decision to refuse access to Russian “ropagandists,” although the bans are not practiced by Washington. […]
St. Francis Gymnasium in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, has been renamed after Lithuania’s former president Valdas Adamkus. […]
Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas has instructed the ministry’s staff to check all acquisition contracts signed by the ministry this year and the ongoing tenders referred to in the Public Procurement Service’s report. […]
More than 30,000 first-graders are beginning school in Lithuania in the new academic year on September 1, several hundred more than last year. […]
Lithuanian citizens living abroad are not very active in registering as voters for the October general elections, the Central Electoral Commission has said. […]
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis has refused to attend a meeting of the political group of the ruling Social Democratic Party. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister joined dozens of people marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the massacre of more than 650 Jews by Nazi occupiers and their local Lithuanian collaborators at the town of Šeduva on Tuesday. It was the third such event in as many days, coming after Holocaust-related commemorations in Biržai and Molėtai. […]
Copyright © 2024 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes