April 2017 - Page 8 of 15 - the Lithuania Tribune

LABAS! Early years theatre festival for you!

April 14, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

Now in its third year, the Labas! festival is the brainchild of Dalia Mikoliūnaitė from Teatriukas in Vilnius, Lithuania and Cliodhna Noonan from Acting Up! in Dublin, Ireland. The first edition (2015) was small and compact and enjoyed the support of the Irish Embassy, the Croatian and Lithuanian Ministries of Culture and the Austrian Culture Forum in Lithuania. It was a first step in the direction of international collaboration on the idea of presenting new performances to an audience under 6 years old and their carers. Performances were in cultural venues in the city and selected state facilities in the Kūdikių namai (Vilnius residence for infants with developmental delays) and minority communities in Vilnius. […]

China’s Parliament speaker coming to Lithuania

April 14, 2017 BNS EN 0

China‘s Parliamentary Speaker Zhang Dejiang, the third-highest official in China’s Communist Party, is coming to Lithuania next week. […]

National Cyber Security Centre’s director resigns

April 14, 2017 BNS EN 0

Rimtautas Černiauskas has resigned as director of the Lithuanian National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the Defence Ministry confirmed to BNS. […]

Prosecutors: Money transferred to fund linked with Liberals

April 14, 2017 BNS EN 0

MG Baltic, one of the biggest business groups in Lithuania, transferred money to bank accounts of a fund and a public establishment linked with the Liberal Movement, not the party’s accounts, after the party’s former Vice-Chairman Gintaras Steponavičius met with MG Baltic representatives, the Prosecutor General’s Office has said. […]

How many politicians working in the Parliament are still loyal to Russia?

April 14, 2017 Media Briefing 0

Mindaugas Bastys, who was recently said to have been operating against Lithuania, cannot be the only person in Parliament who is loyal to Russia. Parliaments’ National Security and Defence (NSGK) Committee members do not reject […]

Fake news piece inserted on BNS after cyber attack

BNS Lithuania turns to prosecutors over system hack

April 14, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Vilnius bureau of Baltic News Service news agency on Thursday turned to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to investigate the publishing of fake news on the agency’s website. […]

New documents on KGB activities in Lithuania published

April 14, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre has published documents from the Special Archives about KGB‘s activities between 1974 and 1985. […]

One in 7 Lithuanians experience severe material deprivation in 2016

April 14, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s severe material deprivation rate edged down by 0.4 percentage points in 2016 compared with 2015 to 13.5 percent, figures from the country’s statistics office showed on Thursday. […]

Skvernelis thinking about a “rainbow”?

April 13, 2017 Media Briefing 0

“I think that the Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is waiting for his supporters in the Parliament Farmer group will unify, gain strength, and then it will form a new coalition with the Social Democrats and […]

Remigijus Šimašius ir Gintaras Steponavičius

Liberal Movement didn’t get illegal money – Šimašius

April 13, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s Liberal Movement has not received any unlawful money, says the party’s leader, Vilnius City Mayor Remigijus Šimašius. […]

Government extends relocation of Lithuanian-origin people from Crimea, Eastern Ukraine

April 13, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s government has agreed to extend the deadline for relocation applications of persons of Lithuanian origin from unsafe regions of Ukraine until the end of the year. […]

Gabrielius Landsbergis, Gintaras Steponavičius

G. Landsbergis urges Steponavičius to resign as MP

April 13, 2017 BNS EN 0

The leader of the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats is calling on Gintaras Steponavičius of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement, another opposition party, to resign as a member of the Seimas. […]

PM thinks suspicions may be brought against Liberal Movement

April 13, 2017 BNS EN 0

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis thinks that law-enforcement officials are likely to bring suspicions against the opposition Lithuanian Liberal Movement as a legal entity. […]

"MG Baltic", Eligijus Masiulis and Gintaras Steponavičius

MG Baltic financially supported Liberal Movement – prosecutors

April 13, 2017 BNS EN 0

Prosecutors have found that MG Baltic, one of Lithuania’s biggest business groups, financially supported the Lithuanian Liberal Movement, although this is prohibited by law. […]

MP Steponavičius says won’t step down, denies abusing powers

April 13, 2017 BNS EN 0

Gintaras Steponavičius of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement says that he does not plan to step down as a member of the Seimas and denies having abused his powers as a lawmaker. […]

Bastys: it is a pity that I do not remember a warning specifically

April 13, 2017 Media Briefing 0

“The representative of Social Democratic group Mindaugas Bastys by maintaining close and regular contact with the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom: representatives acted against the interests of Lithuania “- said Chairman of the National […]

There is a consensus among member countries of the Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan (BEMIP) that the Baltic power grids have to be synchronized with the Western European system via Poland, but details, such as the need for a second LitPol Link, remain to be worked out. […]

Ukrainian flag in the Cathedral Sq. in Vilnius

Lithuanian lawmakers to go to US to rally support for Ukraine

April 13, 2017 BNS EN 0

A group of Lithuanian lawmakers will travel to the United States later this month to rally support for Ukraine, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Thursday. […]