“I will always be less concerned about low voter turnout than high turnout with poorly informed voters”, says Thomas A. Bryer, Fulbright core scholar and visiting professor at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). According to him, citizenship does not begin, and does not end with the vote – we are citizens every day. […]
Lithuania’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that a voter turnout of between 49 and 54 percent in next Sunday’s parliamentary elections would be a good result. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has urged voters to go the polls on Sunday, saying that it will be people, not politicians or political analysts, who will decide on what political parties will form the country’s next ruling coalition after this month’s parliamentary elections. […]
Liudas Dapkus, deputy editor-in-chief at the daily Lietuvos Rytas and editor-in-chief at the Lrytas.lt news website, said on October 5 that he is leaving Lietuvos Rytas. […]
Rezidor, one of the most dynamic hotel groups worldwide and a member of the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, is proud to announce the signing of the first Radisson RED in the Baltics, Russia & CIS region. The hotel will be in Vilnius city centre, next door to the existing Radisson Blu Lietuva hotel and only a short walk from the historical Old Town. The around 200 room Radisson RED Vilnius is expected to open its doors by early 2020, the organisers announced in a press release. […]
Origins found in the interwar periodThe LVŽS consider themselves to have originated from the Lithuanian Popular Peasants’ Union (LVLS), which was active during the interwar period between World War I and World War II. It […]
Seen as the party with most potentialNowadays Viktor Uspaskich sings lyric and melodic songs about his difficulties. The difficulties only arose later in his career however; in 2003 when he, a millionaire member of Seimas, […]
Recently tax reform proposals, which would help raise tax income, of those preparing the new social model were dismissed by the coalition government leaders, the Social Democrats. Now the LSDP has made a U-turn in […]
New poll data reveals that the three most popular parties are currently neck and neck prior to the first round of the Seimas election due on October 9. By now, however, many experts see the […]
Fellows of prominent Lithuanian biochemist Virginijus Šikšnys believe the professor may be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of a gene editing tool in future years. […]
Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union who voted early in the parliamentary election Kaunas on Wednesday, expressed hope for the party to secure sufficient voter support to be able to form the government after the October 9 elections. […]
The Seimas elections are already this Sunday, but many observers have criticised that the current elections are as bleak as ever. Why are the upcoming elections so much less impactful than the previous ones? The […]
More intensive teaching of the Lithuanian language is planned for refugees – they will have to learn the language to the initial level of A1 within a month. […]
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius, the leader of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement, said after casting his early ballot in parliamentary elections he expected the Liberals to have a larger political group than they had before. […]
Documents of Lithuanian guerrilla of the Tauras unit have been discovered in the Marijampolė district, southwestern Lithuania, the Special Archive said on October 4. […]
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former US presidential adviser on national security, has urged the outgoing administration of Barack Obama to warn Russia that in intrusion into the Baltic states would mean a war to Moscow. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after casting her ballot in early voting in the parliamentary elections that she had voted for change. […]
Early voting is starting on Wednesday in municipalities and special post offices in the parliamentary elections of Lithuania. President Dalia Grybauskaitė will also take the opportunity to cast her vote early at the Vilnius municipality. […]
MEP Antanas Guoga, former member of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement, has transferred to the right wing European People’s Party (EPP) at the European Parliament. […]
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