Awards for the best athletes and coaches of 2015 were presented at the Opera and Ballet Theatre on January 5 with pentathlete Laura Asadauskaitė taking the Sportswoman of the Year award and cyclist Ramūnas Navardauskas taking the Sportsman of the Year award. […]
The management of Lithuania’s airfields will be entrusted to municipalities after a decision by the government‘s Strategic Committee. However, Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis said that municipalities would not be forced to take the responsibility for the airfields. […]
Strengthening of relations with the Eastern partners remains one of the most important objectives for 2016, Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius told LRT Radio. […]
Russian oil will be once again supplied to the Orlen Lietuva oil refinery in Mažeikiai as the new head of the company Wojciech Jasinski is increasing raw material imports from Russia, newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reports. […]
Decisions to introduce border controls by Schengen Area countries have set off a “domino effect” that could threaten the entire free movement principle of the European Union, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said. […]
Although the European Union recently agreed to extend sanctions on Russian companies until July of this year, divisions among EU members states are beginning to emerge, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said. […]
A cold snap has gripped Lithuania and its neighbouring countries, with temperatures reaching -22 C or even lower in Lithuania. Meteorologists predict an especially cold day on Thursday, with skin temperatures reaching -30 C. […]
Lithuania’s foreign policy-makers are “shooting themselves in the foot” with their confrontational tone and criticism of anything the European Union does to engage Russia, said Lithuanian European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. […]
After a tragedy in Kėdainiai District when a father killed his two children by throwing them into a well, the government will consider giving more power to the State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius told LRT radio. […]
When the National Geographic published its list of winners of its annual photography awards, one photo among the honorable mentions seemed very familiar to Lithuanians. Photographer Hideki Mazuta had captured a photo of a girl with a pink dress running through Kryžių Kalnas, a famous religious monument in Lithuania. […]
With the new year will come new changes to Lithuania’s tax codes and other laws that will change residents’ everyday lives and hopefully propel the country towards continued growth. […]
The Lithuanian army is to transfer 500 AK-4s, the weapons currently used by Lithuanian soldiers, to the Lithuanian Riflemen‘s Union, a non-profit organisation supported by the State. […]
According to Gitanas Nausėda, the advisor of the president of SEB Bank, 2015 wasn’t a very special year for Lithuania, though, considering Lithuania’s GDP growth, it would be wrong to call it a stagnant year as well. […]
After a first stage of the Dakar rally was cancelled because of heavy rain, 300 vehicles started the second stage but it did not take long for many to get in trouble, among them, Benediktas Vanagas. Vanagas has crashed into a cow which suddenly appeared in his path and had to finish the stage without his front window. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius ordered the Ministry of Social Security and Labour to carry out an investigation whether there was a proper control over the actions regarding families at risk, what measures have been taken to put an end to domestic violence, after the tragic events in Saviečiai village in Kėdainiai district. […]
Political parties will be allowed to spend €2.2 million on their campaigns in this year’s general elections, the Central Electoral Commission said on Monday. […]
Lithuanian start-up YPlan, an event discovery and booking app created by two Lithuanians in London, has gained recognition from one of the most influential technology blogs in the world – VentureBeat. The portal added the Lithuanian project to a list of 15 startups worth following. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė said not only the state but society as well had to take care of children growing up in dysfunctional families after the tragic events in Saviečiai village in Kėdainiai district when a 36-year-old father killed his two children by throwing them into a well. […]
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