Lithuania’s authorities urge Russia to investigate violations recorded in the run-up to and during last Sunday’s State Duma polls and underline that the elections do not change their attitude to Russia’s actions toward Ukraine. […]
A recently published survey caused a surge of debate on the role of minorities in Lithuania and the implication of the findings to national security, particularly when discussing the Russian and Polish minorities in Lithuania. With Russian propaganda and pro-Kremlin entities and political parties touting issues with Lithuania, US and the West in general, the survey data provides a number of curious insights, Vaidas Saldžiūnas reported in DELFI […]
The largest warchest for the current election has been gathered by the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) with a large portion being funds endowed from the state budget. The Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) […]
Conference to discuss Lithuanian and regional security challenges was held in Vilnius on October 19. Read the most interesting thoughts from the conference. […]
Representatives from the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) and Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) met in a Delfi electoral debate in an exchange of opinions. LVŽS Chairman Ramūnas Karbauskis spoke for his party, while the LSDP was represented by deputy party Chairman and Seimas deputy Chairman Algirdas Sysas. Key focus in the exchange were artificial insemination, the writing of last names in original language in identification documents and matters of partnership. […]
With Seimas elections less than a month away, the various parties are in a hurry to present their programmes and politicians who would take the place of current ministers. The Prime Minister position is not […]
More than half of Russian citizens who cast their votes in Lithuania in Sunday’s State Duma elections supported the ruling United Russia party, based on preliminary results. […]
The Lithuanian Armed Forces are starting an exercise of reconnaissance units on Monday involving about 200 troops. […]
Prize winners in Olympic and Paralympic games should receive equal prizes in cash in Lithuania, President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said. […]
Kaunas —Saturday marked the opening of a weeklong public program at the New Šančiai Synagogue in Kaunas, Lithuania, commemorating of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania. Organised by the International Centre for Litvak Photography, or IC4LP, the program is the launch and first instalment of a long-term artistic activity called the Kaunas Requiem, which involves the composition of an experimental music-based artwork that is proposed to run for a duration of seventy-five years. The program also offers the public an opportunity to engage with two of the centre’s ongoing remembrance projects on the theme of the lost Jewish culture of Kaunas and its surrounds, one photographic and one architectural. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday signed the new Labour Code and accompanying amendments into law, the President’s Office said. Last week, the parliament overrode the presidential veto and kept the liberal version of the Labor Code it had adopted in June. The new code and the social model package will take effect at the start of 2017. […]
The story of overpriced kitchen utensils has markedly pulled down the public confidence in Lithuania’s Armed Forces and Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
The political corruption scandal has undermined voter confidence in the Liberal Movement, while the trust in the ruling Labour Party and the Order and Justice party has also declined, shows the latest public opinion poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday, while the popularity of the Anti-corruption Coalition of Kristupas Krivickas and Naglis Puteikis is on the rise. […]
Seimas electoral debates are to go on for four weeks leading up to the October Seimas elections. Politicians are to debate on the topics of economics, demographics, justice and social politics. The debate this time included representatives from the Order and Justice Party (TT), Lithuanian Green Party, Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families Union (LLRA), Lithuanian Freedom Union (LLS), S. Buškevičius and Nationalists’ Coalition “Against corruption and poverty”. The first topic for debate was economics. […]
The so-called army utensils scandal has significantly decreased public trust in the military and the Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas shows an opinion poll by Vilmorus released in Lietuvos Rytas newspaper on Saturday. The […]
The Anti-Corruption Coalition of Kristupas Krivickas and Naglis Puteikis is accumulating the protest vote in a corruption scandal ridden year. This greatly raises the coalition’s chances of stepping over the 7% vote boundary set for […]
Senior Member of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement Eugenijus Gentvilas believes that despite his party’s diminished ratings they will have no problem mobilizing their electorate and stepping over the 5% vote boundary needed to enter Seimas. […]
With the corruption scandal revolving around former party chairman Eligijus Masiulis continuing to batter the Liberal Movement (LS), its chances of entering Seimas are continuing to decrease. The Liberals are accompanied by the Labour Party […]
On 26 Augustus 1991 the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Algirdas Saudargas signed a document establishing diplomatic relations between a free Lithuania and Iceland. Soon thereafter, a number of countries followed and on 17 September, the UN General Assembly admitted Lithuania as a member. […]
Latvian experts are expected to next week present an analysis of archival financial documents, proving that Lithuania was a donor of the Soviet Union rather than its dependent. […]
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