During their elections campaigns both the Conservatives (TS-LKD) and the “Peasants” (LVŽS) stressed the need for education and social reform. How the reform should be done, however, particularly education, is where their opinions split. For […]
The European Film Academy and EFA Productions presented this year’s short film nominations with the film I‘M NOT FROM HERE (by Maite Alberdi and Giedrė Žickytė) in the nomination list, Lithuanian Film Centre announced. […]
Mine-clearing specialists discovered 72 World War II-era artillery shells in a canal next to the dolphinarium of Lithuania’s port city of Klaipėda, the Defence Ministry said. […]
Around 200 defence experts from 20 countries are expected to take part in the Global SOF Symposium – Europe, a two-day event kicking off in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
Suspicions of vote-buying in Šilutė, in western Lithuania, may call into question the Order and Justice Party‘s overall results in the country’s parliamentary elections, the head of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) said on Thursday. […]
Lithuania’s Embassy has expressed a protest against presentation of Russian journalist Galina Sapozhnikova about Lithuania in Milan, Italy. […]
Russian military ships and aircraft, which have become more active in the Baltic Sea recently, pose no threat to civilians, Russia‘s embassy in Vilnius said on Thursday, a day after Lithuania handed a diplomatic note to the ambassador. […]
NATO’s airborne warning and control system (AWACS) airplane is to land on Thursday in the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai, in the northern part of the country, the Defence Ministry said. […]
The first round of Lithuania’s parliamentary elections has shown that the public is tired of scandal-ridden political parties, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday. […]
To imagine that journalist Rita Miliūtė could run for Seimas alongside Ramūnas Karbauskis would likely require a fall on the head from a height of two metres. Such is the evaluation of political analyst Rimvydas […]
With the first round of Seimas elections concluded, two candidates are facing off in Naujoji Vilnia. This showdown has been joined by famous economists, politicians and other public figures. Algirdas Paleckis of the non-parliamentary Socialist […]
Based on Central Electoral Commission (VRK) data, Lithuanians voting from abroad have had a fairly different distribution of votes compared to those in Lithuania. During the first round, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats […]
The Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP), having been left third in the election, does not appear to be willing to let go of the reins of governance. Party leader, PM Algirdas Butkevičius stated that after […]
Kristupas Krivickas, one of the leaders of the Anti-Corruption Coalition of Naglis Putekis and Kristupas Krivickas spoke at Infodiena, claiming that despite failing to exceed the 7% vote barrier needed for his coalition to enter Seimas, he is is still happy with the election results, with the coalition coming in fifth in votes despite failing to enter Seimas. […]
The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday handed a diplomatic note to Russia’s ambassador in Vilnius, Alexander Udaltsov, over incidents in Lithuania’s exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea. […]
Lithuania’s outgoing parliament was the one that appointed Zenonas Vaigauskas as the chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, therefore, should evaluate his performance, says Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužnienė. […]
Epilogue no. 2 and prologue no. 1 to the coming four years: single-mandate lottery in the second round and a coalition. Ligitas Kernagis who failed to obtain a mandate in this election once sang “Ratings, ratings, ratings everywhere, single-mandate in hand, money elsewhere”. We will not be talking about money in this article because much has already been said while analysing the financial declarations of candidates. Today we speak of that which everyone is concerned with – who will win the second round and form the coalition government. […]
Lithuania and Latvia have much in common on a strategic level. Yet relations between the two aren’t especially brotherly. That’s how political expert Linas Kojala put it on LRT.lt. In his opinion it is difficult to pin down a special closeness between the two countries with actual examples. Vytautas Magnus University Professor Alvydas Butkus notes that representatives of the two countries’ governments would seemingly like to communicate but there aren’t close ties between the two societies. […]
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