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Year: 2016
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Police seize cannabis shipment worth €4m
The Lithuanian police have seized 320 kilograms of hashish with a street value of up to €4 million after carrying out an operation in Klaipėda. […]
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Lithuanian invention makes it impossible to steal fuel from trucks
Trucking companies often face major problems with diesel being stolen from the fuel tanks of trucks but Lithuanian electronics expert Kęstas Simanavičius has an original answer to the transport company’s problems. […]
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Society
Author explores Holocaust in Lithuania: ‘Our own boys used to go shooting people after school’
Author Rūta Vanagaitė recently presented a book, “Our Own”, about the Holocaust in Lithuania. Although historians have been researching the topic for years, the Lithuanian society has yet to realize and acknowledge the part their compatriots, ordinary Lithuanians, played in the mass killings of Jews, Vanagaitė says. […]
Culture
Photographer explores Lithuanian region torn in two by border with Belarus
Jasper Walter Bastian, an award-winning German-American documentary photographer, has created a photo series called “A Road Not Taken” that explores the town of Dieveniškės, located only 6 kilometres form the Belarusian border, and the surrounding Šalčininkai region. […]
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Opinion: Kaliningrad – Kremlin‘s joker in geopolitical poker game with West
The Kremlin‘s propaganda rarely shocks anymore and hardly registers as news with most people but some of it deserves attention because when a specific propaganda message is repeated over and over, it is done in an attempt to embed it in our minds as being the uncontestable truth. In the case of Kaliningrad, it has to be feared that the Kremlin‘s efforts are an attempt to incite war between the West and Russia. […]
Defence
Lithuania could become logistics hub for US military, says defence minister
Lithuania could become a regional logistics centre for the US military, says Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]
Global LT
Remembering Jūratė Jurgutytė-Foran
It’s not often you hear stories that inspire others to cope with their own suffering. Or, that the dying can teach us about living. But the story of Jūratė Jurgutyte-Foran, who passed away at Toronto General Hospital on May 2, 2015, does just that. […]
Society
Foreign affairs
Lithuania allocates €20k to refugees in Turkey
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday it had allocated EUR 20,000 in humanitarian aid to refugees in Turkey. […]
Economy
Lithuanians more optimistic about future prospects, economy
Lithuanians are more optimistic about their country and their financial prospects, but expect to save less in the coming year, according to the latest survey from Statistics Lithuania. […]
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Family values and Russian influence in Latvia
A fight for “family values” in Latvia is uniting the Kremlin’s friends and ideological foes. […]
Politics
Healthcare minister admits offering bribe to doctor
Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė has admitted she once gave a bribe to doctors. She made the comments while discussing small-scale corruption that is wide-spread in the country’s healthcare system. […]
Economy
Credit company fined record €30k for giving loans to jobless
Lithuanian banking regulators have hit a consumer credit company with a fine of €30,000 for issuing loans to unemployed applicants, the biggest penalty of this kind to date. […]
Society
Lithuania refuses residency permit to same-sex spouse
Lithuania’s Migration Department has refused to issue a temporary residence permit to a Belarusian man who married his Lithuanian male partner in the Netherlands. […]
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Put pressure on Moscow, not Kiev, to end war in Ukraine, Lithuanian minister says
The international community should not demand that the Ukrainian government grants autonomy to its eastern regions until Russia ensures security in the region, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius argues in an op-ed piece published in the Wall Street Journal. […]
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President and minister visit rural social care centre
President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Social Security Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė visited Rimėnai village in the Alytus region on Wednesday to learn from the municipality and rural communities how to help disadvantaged families escape from violence, alcohol and poverty. […]
Sports
Lithuanian goalkeeper joins English Premier League club Bournemouth
Lithuania’s 18-year-old Atlantas goalkeeper Marius Adamonis has joined English Premier League Club Bournemouth after a trial at the club. […]
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Lithuanian SMEs focussing on investment in domestic markets
Instead of strengthening their positions abroad or looking for new markets, small and medium sized Lithuanian companies are this year planning to increase investment in expansion in domestic markets, a survey commissioned by SEB Bank shows. […]