Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree under which Kaliningrad’s port limits should be expanded to accommodate a new Gazprom LNG terminal, writes Andrzej Kublik at gazeta.pl. Gazprom plans to install a terminal […]
The black economy in Lithuania is estimated to be worth more than €9 billion, or more than one billion euros more than the country‘s budget this year, which includes EU funding and other international supports. […]
Ukrainian war pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who was recently released from prison in Russia, says she will visit Lithuania at the earliest opportunity to thank the country for its vocal protest against her detention by Moscow. […]
Lithuanian truck drivers are organizing a rally on Monday to protest new measures introduced in France which they say will undermine competition. The French government has passed legislation, which comes into force this July, demanding […]
When NATO leaders gather in Warsaw on July 8 to 9, they will announce steps to beef up the alliance’s conventional force presence on its eastern flank. NATO also will shortly announce that the SM-3 missile defense site in Romania has achieved operational status. These moves will spur the Kremlin, with some fanfare, to announce military “countermeasures.” But those will be steps that Moscow almost certainly intends to take in any case. […]
Each year, about half a million Lithuanians give up to 2% of their income tax to non-profits, which amounts to millions of euros. While tax authorities can track who gets the money, they hardly ever scrutinize if it is used for its intended purpose. Occasional inspections reveal, however, that sometimes the funds are used to purchase cars or real estate. […]
Starting in 2017, Washington plans to begin heel-to-toe rotations of an armored brigade from the United States in Eastern Europe. In some respects, this represents a significant improvement over the assurance and deterrence steps taken by the United States and several of its NATO allies since 2014. […]
It has often been remarked that politics can make strange bedfellows, bringing together groups that one could not imagine agreeing on anything. That is what has been happening in Latvia, where Latvian nationalists and ethnic-Russian residents of that Baltic country—for quite different reasons—both support restricting any further immigration into Latvia from the Russian Federation. […]
Two years ago, Polish PR and marketing manager Marta Hopfer and French graphic designer Jean-Nicolas Gilles decided they needed a change, and so they planned a 5,000 km, off-the-grid bicycle trip around Europe. Starting from Poland, one of their first stops was in Lithuania, where Marta agreed to talk to the Lithuania Tribune about their adventure and what they had seen so far. […]
Vincenzo Russo, Lithuanian Honorary Consul in Naples, Italy […]
This weekend, Skamba Skamba Kankliai, Lithuania’s biggest folk music festival and one of Europe’s largest as well, kicked off with a flurry of Lithuanian folk dancing, ancient sutartinės, and other forms of folk and ethnographic museum from Lithuania and around the world. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence has decided to open talks with the Norwegian government on acquisition of medium-range missile defence systems NASAMS. […]
Famous Lithuanian journalist and TV host Andrius Tapinas‘ recent Freedom Picnic event was a great success, with thousands of attendees and several high-level participants, like singer Andrius Mamontovas, commentator Algis Ramanauskas, and even President Dalia Grybauskaitė. Not everyone got to attend, however. […]
Vilniaus Prekyba, the owner of Lithuanian supermarket chain Maxima, drugstore chain Eurovaistinė and the DIY-chain Ermitažas, posted profits of €101 million last year, up 22% on 2014. […]
Lithuania has produced many outstanding sportsmen and women so selecting a Top 10 sportspeople of all time is an almost impossible task. Here is our selection of the top Lithuanian sportspeople of all time and we want you our readers all around the world to choose who you think the Top 10 Lithuanian sportspeople of all time are. […]
Vilnius-based Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and Kaunas-based Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) are planning to merge into one higher education institution by 2019. […]
There’s plenty of cool stuff going in in Lithuania this weekend, including a number of great festivals in Vilnius. Whether you’re into ancient sutartinės and folk music, the latest creative tech trends, or just want to relax, there’s something for everybody in our small roundup. Have fun! […]
The State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) has completed negotiations with Algeria on veterinary certificates for the export of meat products to that country, reports Lietuvos Žinios. Lithuania has recently negotiated veterinary certificates with Iran, […]
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