On this day in 1323, Grand Duke Gediminas, the ruler of Lithuania at the time, wrote a letter that has become the first known historical mention of the name of Vilnius. This January 25th is the Lithuanian capital’s 693rd birthday! […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s Anti-corruption Commission has turned to the minister of finance, asking for clarification about public procurement contracts of the State Tax Inspectorate (VMI). […]
Vilniaus Energija, the Lithuanian energy company owned by France’s Veolia (formerly Dalkia), has failed to convince a court that it should be reimbursed €19 million it overpaid for Gazprom gas. […]
Lithuania’s gas company Litgas has concluded negotiations with Norway’s Statoil to review it’s five-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contract, substantially cutting maintenance costs of Lithuania’s LNG terminal and the price for gas consumers, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
Protests have sprung up across a number of countries against the actions of Barnevernet, the Norwegian children’s welfare service that has removed numerous children from migrant families in Norway. Last Thursday, one such protest sprang up in front of the Norwegian embassy in Vilnius but Linas Linkevičius, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, said “only a legal path, not populist protests and rallies, can be used to negotiate with Norway for the children that were taken from those Lithuanians”. […]
Professor Vytautas Landsbergis was presented with the Heart award in Kaunas at the house of the nation on Sunday. […]
Chinchilla farming is one of the most profitable businesses in Lithuania, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. […]
An interactive musical park bench has been given to Vilnius by the Polish Embassy to commerorate the closing of the year dedicated to the composer, politician and diplomat Mykolas Kleopas Oginskis (Michał Kleofas Ogiński). […]
Real estate tax collection and revenues will be handed over to municipalities to encourage them to implement the taxes more stringently under new proposals from Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius. […]
A sudden rise in apartment rents, especially in Vilnius, after the adoption of the euro has no “rational basis”, says Danske Bank economist Rokas Grajauskas, adding that he expects rents to go down this year. […]
Lithuanian businessman Mindaugas Marcinkevičius, a minority shareholder in the company that operates the country’s biggest grocery chain Maxima, is to go to the Luxembourg courts to contest a €90-million loan at below-market interest rates that the company extended to Luxembourg-registered businesses owned by another shareholder. […]
Lithuania has begun blocking access to the websites of some foreign online betting companies after tightening controls on online gaming operators at the start of this year. […]
For almost every second family with financial liabilities, those liabilities are a great financial burden, but households with instant credit face the most difficulties, according to the latest survey of household financial behaviour commissioned by the Bank of Lithuania. […]
The number of Lithuanians using self-service parcel terminals increased by 55% in 2015 driven by an increase in online shopping, according to Baltic Post, who operate parcel kiosks across Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian Film Centre is set to increase its funding and support for Lithuanian filmmakers to €2.66 million in 2016 and expects the number of foreign productions filmed in Lithuanian to grow in the year ahead. […]
Litgas, the gas trading arm of the state-owned energy group Lietuvos Energija, will sign a renewed liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contract with Norway‘s Statoil on Monday. […]
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany, which Russia plans to build across the Baltic Sea, is economically unsound and is a political project aimed at dividing European Union countries, said Lithuania’s President, Dalia Grybauskaite. […]
A cloth voodoo doll with tiny button eyes depicting Vladimir Putin; a knife to cut it; a water bowl to drown it; pins and needles to prick it. And it all feels so good. It’s a perfect illustration of what the desks of certain politicians, reporters and analysts might look like who were writing about Russia in 2014 and 2015. […]
Two former Lithuanian leaders – ex-president Valdas Adamkus and the country’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis – have urged the government “to do everything in its power to immediately halt the construction of the Astravyets nuclear power plant” in Belarus some 50 km east of Vilnius. […]
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