European Union
EP to vote on lifting Lithuanian MEP’s immunity
The European Parliament will consider Lithuanian prosecutors’ request to strip Rolandas Paksas, the Order and Justice party’s leader, of his immunity as an MEP. […]
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Defence
Four Lithuanian state institutions under attack from hackers
Four Lithuanian state institutions have been subjected to cyber attacks over the past several days. […]
Culture
Film festival premiere of Ukraine war documentary draws Lithuanian President
The Kino Pavasaris international film festival in Vilnius hosted the Lithuanian premiere of the documentary film Mariupolis, directed by Mantas Kvedaravičius, last Friday. The film is a documentary about the war in Eastern Ukraine. […]
Foreign affairs
Poll: Should Lithuania grant asylum to army interpreters?
The story of Abdul Basir Yoususi, an Afghani interpreter who used to work with Lithuanian forces in Ghor Province but had to flee his country for fear of the Taliban’s retribution, introduced a new angle into the refugee debate in Lithuania. […]
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Nina Khrushcheva: Putin is a brilliant tactician, but a losing strategist
Each Russian leader picks a subject he is an expert in and Vladimir Putin‘s subject is history. “That is why in order to understand Russia, we must understand Russian history,” says Professor Nina Khrushcheva of the New School University in New York. […]
Politics
Tomas Žilinskas appointed Lithuania’s new interior minister
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has appointed Tomas Žilinskas, the director of the Interior Ministry’s Public Security Policy Department, as the country’s new minister of the interior affairs. […]
Defence
Lithuanian Foreign Ministry website hit by cyber attack
Websites of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs came under a cyber attack on Tuesday evening. It is the second Lithuanian state institution to be targeted by hackers this week. […]
Economy
Depopulated towns consider demolishing Soviet-era apartment buildings
As Lithuania’s regions face a growing emigration crisis, some have begun calling for measures to deal with the aging apartment buildings that have been left behind as communities shrink. […]
Defence
Society
Lithuania – fattest post-Soviet state according to Radio Liberty
Lithuania has appeared on top of a list called the fattest post-Soviet people announced on Monday morning by Radio Liberty. […]
Politics
Outgoing interior minister faces probe by electoral commission
Outgoing Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis could have breached official ethics by using the Ministry’s public relations resources for campaigning, according to the Central Electoral Commission. […]
Society
Number of alcohol selling points may be slashed in half, says health minister
Minister of Health Juras Požėla discussed some of the changes to alcohol laws that the Ministry of Health will propose to combat alcoholism in Lithuania. […]
CORPORATE
Negative interest forces SEB Bank to raise cash service prices
The Lithuanian branch of Sweden’s SEB Bank has announced that its clients will have to pay more for many of the services as of June. This way, the bank’s clients are to shoulder some of […]
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The impact of Panama Papers in Eastern Europe – and rest of the world
On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift. […]
Opinion
Opinion: How the Kremlin infiltrated an EU referendum in the Netherlands
The student leaders of 1968 could probably not have imagined how their democratic ideas would be high-jacked by a combination of extremists and opponents of democracy exploiting technological progress and social media. Nobody understands the dangers of technology and social media better than dictators and demagogues. […]
CORPORATE
The story of the refugee who captured Lithuania’s imagination
Local interpreters who worked with NATO troops in Afghanistan knew they were risking their lives and the compensation many of them received turned out to be inadequate, especially after the Alliance pulled out. […]
CORPORATE
Lithuanian company to export organic hemp to Japan
Lithuanian Organic hemp grower UAB Agropro is entering the Japanese market. Up to now 95% of all of the company‘s products have been exported to European Union countries and the United States. “Japan is a […]
Economy
Lithuanian workers have fourth longest holidays in world
Lithuania offers the fourth highest number of paid holidays for its workers in the world according to a new statistical analysis. […]
CORPORATE
Karbauskis makes pitch to be Lithuania’s centrist party
One of the leaders of the Peasant and Greens Union, Ramūnas Karbauskis has said his party straddles both the right and left of Lithuanian politics but ruled out future coalition with a number of parties […]
CORPORATE
Lithuanians preparing for a unique space mission
A second Lithuanian satellite, LituanicaSAT-2, will be launched into space in July as part of an international research and innovation project. The satellite, made by Vilnius University scientists and UAB NanoAvionika and its partners, will […]