Politics
Year: 2016
Politics
Lithuanian watchdog calls for election silence on social networks
With a ban on election campaigning in force, the head of the Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission has called on social network users not to encourage others to vote for any specific politician, not to share any campaign material and even not to press the Like button. […]
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Russia deploying Iskander at Lithuanian border to get concessions from West
Russia is deploying nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius confirmed on Saturday. […]
Defence
Foreign affairs
President accepts credentials from US new ambassador
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday received letters of credence from the United States new Ambassador Anne Hall. […]
Economy
President signs into law alcohol control amendments
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday signed into law amendments to the Law on Alcohol Control that require retailers to ask alcohol buyers to show identification documents only if there is doubt that they are of the legal drinking age. […]
Russia transporting Iskander missile system to Kaliningrad
According to a government source known to ERR’s Estonian news portal, the Russian Baltic Fleet is moving an Iskander-M missile system from Ust-Luga to Kaliningrad on a civilian vessel, ERR News reported. […]
CORPORATE
ELECTIONS. Analysis. Social policy debate – another victory for the “Peasants”
The “Peasants” (LVŽS) are celebrating their second consecutive debate victory, shows a survey of experts done by LRT.lt after the social policy debate. The “Peasant’s” performance was once again voted as the best, however the lead over the Conservatives (TS-LKD) who were left in second place is only one point. Furthermore most experts agree that G. Landsbergis’ (TS-LKD) closing statement was the strongest, while S. Skvernelis’ (LVŽS) speech was decent, but reading off a paper made for a bad image. […]
Politics
CORPORATE
ELECTIONS. Parties already negotiating but remain mute about it
LRT.lt sources suggest that Peasant and Greens (LVŽS) negotiations with the Social Democrats (LSDP) are led by former Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis, while the negotiations with the Conservatives (TS-LKD) are led by the […]
Culture
Politics
Society
Biochemist Šikšnys awarded elite Warren Alpert Prize
Professor Virginijus Šikšnys, biochemist of the Vilnius University’s Institute of Biotechnology, has been awarded the elite Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for his remarkable contribution to the understanding of the CRISPR bacterial defence system and the revolutionary discovery that it can be adapted for genome editing. […]
Politics
Rukla refugee reception centre may run out of room
After Lithuania started to receive more refugees under the European Union (EU) program, its Rukla refugee reception centre may soon start running short on accommodation for all newcomers. […]
CORPORATE
Parties’ ratings and ELECTIONS results: now and then, what to expect?
Preliminary voting for the first round of the 2016 Seimas election started on Wednesday, with the main event to start on Sunday. 14 parties and coalitions are competing for 141 mandates in the Seimas with […]
Economy
Politics
PM takes day off for campaign in Vilkaviškis
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, the leader of the Social Democrats, has taken a day of unpaid holiday this week to meet the electorate of Vilkaviskis, southern Lithuania, ahead of the parliamentary election. […]
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Estonian formin expects Rail Baltica agreement to be signed
Estonian Foreign Minister Jurgen Ligi believes that the Baltic countries will soon to finalize the signing of an agreement on a procurement model for the 5-billion-euro European standard-gauge railway project Rail Baltica. […]
Politics