Culture
Lithuania’s photographic artist awarded prize of German Photographic Association
The German Photographic Association has said that this year’s Erich Salomon Award to Lithuanian photographic artist Antanas Sutkus. […]
Month: April 2017
Opinion
In love with Europe
Today, when Europe is being attacked and battered from all sides, my reaction is like that of a lover who puts all the shortcomings of the object of his love on one side of the scales and on the other – the question ‘Could I live without her?’ And not one of her shortcomings or even all of them put together outweigh the question. I would not know how to go on living without her. And so I do not want to and am unable to join the chorus of those giving advice or lecturing her as to how she should be, in what direction she should change: visit clubs less often and go more often to church, dress in one way and not another, spend money or save it, love certain people and not others. As a true lover, these questions today do not seem to be fundamental, particularly because the people who raise them like to finish with: if Europe does not do what I say, it is doomed. […]
Defence
Rosatom sought foothold in Lithuania – declassified intelligence info
Russia’s nuclear energy giant Rosatom, which is building the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, had plans to gain a foothold in Lithuania, according to declassified material provided by the State Security Department to the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence. […]
Politics
MP Bastys acted against Lithuania’s intrests, panel finds
Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Social Democratic political group in the Seimas, acted against the interests of the Lithuanian state by maintaining close and constant contacts with representatives of Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, a parliamentary committee has concluded after a probe. […]
Defence
Fake news about US troops posted on BNS website, cyber attack suspected
A fake news article about alleged mustard-gas poisoning among US troops in Latvia was posted on the Baltic News Service’s website in a suspected cyber attack on Wednesday. […]
Global LT
Benefits of Lithuanian citizenship from the South African Litvak perspective
“South Africa is more Litvak than Lithuania itself,” Markas Zingeris, the Lithuanian playwright and novelist once remarked. And, as one of very few members of Lithuania’s Jewish community to remain in the country, he would know. The vast majority of Lithuanian Jews have found good reason to leave at one time or another in history, whether it was unrest in Europe between 1868 and 1914, or the economic hardship that characterised the period from Lithuania’s independence in 1918 until June 1940 when the Soviet army took control. It was during this time that thousands of Lithuanians came to South Africa in droves, in search of a more peaceful life. And it is here where many have remained. […]
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Politics
MP Bastys won’t step down even if probe finds he poses threat to National security
Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Social Democratic political group in the Seimas, says that he does not intend to step down as a lawmaker even if a parliamentary probe finds that his actions pose a threat to national security. […]
Economy
Politics
President calls on MPs not ‘to bulldoze over’ Constitution on dual citizenship
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday called on members of the Seimas to respect the Constitution during debates on dual citizenship. […]
CORPORATE
Test of PM’s patience is still to come: universities getting ready for defences in Seimas
It seems that the initiative to merge Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) and Lithuania Educational Sciences (LEU) universities was all just a flash before the actual battle in the Parliament, where MPs will consider a network […]
Politics
Justmin sacks chief of Kaunas Remand Prison over gross violations
Lithuania’s Justice Minister Milda Vainiūtė on Wednesday said she sacked Edvardas Kviatkauskas from director of the Kaunas Remand Prison over gross violations after an in-service check. […]
Politics
Seimas speaker expects Constitutional Court to revise opinion on citizenship
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has expressed hope for the Constitutional Court to revise its doctrine and to allow broader dual citizenship possibilities by law rather than amendment of the country’s Organic Law. […]
CORPORATE
What is the difference between the SocDems’ of Sinkevičius and Paluckis
Mindaugas Sinkevičius seeking to lead Social Democrats wants to lead in a similar manner as Algirdas Butkevičius – maintaining its nucleus, but the Social Democrats need sudden and severe changes, LRT.lt reported. This was stated […]
Defence
Pentagon chief expected in Lithuania
United States Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis, one of the highest-ranking officers of the US administration, may come to Lithuania, Lietuvos Žinios daily said. […]
CORPORATE
Do the old Social Democrats get scared of Paluckas’ coup?
Chairman of the Social Democratic Party won the election ticket to the second round for the winning Gintautas Paluckas and Mindaugas Sinkevičius, party members are already predicting fate. According to them, everything will be determined […]
Politics
Seimas panel to vote on conclusions of probe into Bastys’ ties
The Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday plans to vote on draft conclusions of the probe of the ties of MP Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the group of the ruling Social Democratic Party. […]
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Belarus bans MEPs from Astravyets N-plant site
Belarusian officials have decided to refuse entry to a handful of members of the European Parliament (EP) who wanted to look at the construction of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Lithuanian MEP Petras Auštrevičius said. […]
Defence
Lithuania to participate in the establishment of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
On 11 April in Helsinki, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the establishment of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats was signed by representatives of the U.S., the UK, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Finland, France, Sweden and Germany, Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a press release. […]
Foreign affairs
Working together for common development
With snow melting away, grass germinating and trees unfolding buds, Lithuania in April is surrounded by gentle aroma of early spring. In such beautiful season, H. E. Mr. Zhang Dejiang, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, is soon to pay an official visit to the Republic of Lithuania at the invitation of H. E. Prof. Viktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, H. E. Mr. Wei Ruixing, Chinese Ambassador to Lithuania wrote on the eve of the Chinese Speaker’s Official Visit to the Republic of Lithuania. […]