Lithuania plans to apply on Thursday to a Swedish court for an annulment of a Stockholm arbitration court‘s ruling in a dispute between the government and Russia’s gas giant Gazprom in which the country sought, but was not awarded, 1.4 billion euros in compensation for overpriced Russian natural gas. […]
Just a week after the Lithuanian parliament overrode the president’s veto on the new Labour Code with a promise to improve the package, adopted in June, before next month’s general elections, lawmakers, mostly from the Social Democratic political group, have started putting forward amendments. […]
A Vilnius court has ruled that name of another Lithuanian citizen should be spelled with the non-Lithuanian character W in his passport and personal identity card. […]
After an amendment to the Citizenship Law took effect in Lithuania in July, Litvaks, i.e. Jews of Lithuanian origin, living in Israel and the Republic of South Africa are again submitting applications for restoration of their Lithuanian citizenship, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday. […]
The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission has suggested blocking access to websites who have failed to notify it about broadcasts of rebroadcasts of television programs to users in Lithuania. […]
Lithuania used to earmark about 6 percent of its national budget to the Soviet Union during the Soviet rule, which proves that Lithuania and other nations were not dependent on the Soviet Union but were its donors, a Latvian researcher has said. […]
Lithuania’s former MEP, philosopher Leonidas Donskis, passed away on Wednesday morning. […]
According to an opinion poll by public opinion and market research company Vilmorus, the top three most popular parties are more or less cemented in their positions by now. The situation is not quite as clear lower down in the rankings however. There are a number of parties in the upcoming election that, according to the poll data, are on the brink of being able to enter Seimas. […]
For each election citizens can read a number of lengthy party programmes with a series of promises from candidate parties, often fairly abstract promises to improve everything, with no substantiation as to how it will […]
Experts have observed that the Lithuanian People’s Party and the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families’ Union (LLRA-KŠS) electoral programmes discuss the same things, just in different wording. Furthermore they have noted that the […]
This year’s electoral campaigns have so far been fairly low key with relatively little public exposure. The only domain where this can be held as untrue has been social media, with many of this year’s […]
Both the coalition government and the opposition parties agree that too little tax revenue is collected in Lithuania and also that there is a need to reduce labour and property taxation. The means to do […]
The so-called “golden fork” scandal has not yet settled, but it may very well be that Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas could be faced with yet another controversy. This time it relates to the controversial family status of an officer who was slated to be posted in Moscow, DELFI.lt reported. […]
Lithuania’s Defence Ministry on Tuesday said it was recalling Defense Attache to Russia Saulius Pikturna due to family reasons, however, did not elaborate on media reports about his marriage with a Russian citizen from Crimea. […]
The maintenance works of the LitPol Link interconnection were accomplished on Saturday afternoon. It was the first annual disconnection of the power link with Poland for the maintenance. After the works were performed, the interconnection was again put into operation on September 18, Litgrid communications department informed. […]
A survey of teenagers across Europe showed last year that the number of Lithuanian 15- and 16-year-olds who drank alcohol in the past month was below the average level in Europe. […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday voted down a proposal to ban smoking on balconies of multi-apartment buildings. […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday started discussions on the Labour Party‘s proposal to reduce the number of members of the Seimas to 111, from the current 141 members. […]
To promote voting in general election this October amongst the diaspora, the Lithuanian Youth Association of the UK (JKLJS) with partners organized a political debate at the University College London. The event packed large Darwin hall with live streaming being watched by Lithuanians in the US, Netherlands and Norway. […]
“People first” is the slogan with which the Social Democrats (LSDP) entered power four years ago. Last week, however, the LSDP voted alongside a number of other parties to overrule the President’s veto of the […]
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