Foreign affairs
Construction of fence on Lithuania’s border with Russia to start next week
Construction of a fence on Lithuania’s border with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave is expected to start next week. […]
Month: May 2017
Foreign affairs
Foreign minister to take part in Baltic, Nordic and Visegrad Group meeting in Poland
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius on Tuesday is taking part in a meeting of foreign ministers of the Baltic, Nordic and Visegrad Group countries in Poland. […]
Foreign affairs
CORPORATE
Three letters and a solution to five problems
It looks like the current Seimas majority are seriously considering a debate on the problem of the three letters, i.e. w, q and x, in official Lithuanian documents. And it’s not just the draft proposal […]
Politics
EP committee postpones discussion on Lithuanian MEP Paksas’ immunity
The European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs has postponed discussion on Lithuanian prosecutors’ request to lift the legal immunity of MEP Rolandas Paksas until its next meeting in late June. […]
CORPORATE
What more Lithuanian politics – chaos or reform?
The Labour Code that have harmed the Social Democrats is affecting the Farmers Greens as well. It seems that they had the support to adopt it in the Parliament, this week they stopped the discussions […]
Society
Lithuanian educational game among the strongest projects from 15 countries
The educational game Robo Settlers developed by the Lithuanian Team SneakyBox was among the strongest projects from 15 countries at the annual Microsoft Imagine Cup Regional Finals. The Lithuanian project competed with another eight projects in the finals for the opportunity to vie for the top prize in Seattle, USA. […]
Society
Lithuanians back alcohol ad ban, disapprove of specialized stores – poll
Lithuanians back a complete ban on alcohol advertising, shortening of sale hours and raising of the legal drinking age to 20, but they do not support plans to set up specialized alcohol stores and to prohibit the sale of alcohol at large public events, according to the latest opinion poll published on Delfi.lt. […]
Freetime
Foreign Ministry unveils mobile app for travelers
The Foreign Ministry unveiled on Monday a new mobile application for travelers, named “Travel Safely”. […]
Defence
Little green men from new incubators
There a has been growing concern in Europe regarding the Kremlin’s new methods of formulating the aggressive fifth column whose members are recruited under the guise of combat sports clubs. According to, experts Lithuania – […]
Opinion
The Farmers succeeded: the Social Democrats did a flip
The coalition of Farmers and Greens Union and the Social Democrats did not seem very stable at first glance, their stability was questioned by PM Saulius Skvernelis. However, a vote on the amendments to the […]
Defence
Biggest activity of Russian warplanes reported above Baltic Sea last week
NATO fighter-jets serving in the Baltic air-policing mission were last week scrambled six times from Lithuania over Russian warplanes flying above the Baltic Sea. […]
Economy
Many additional changes in the future tax reform
Due to the plans to transfer the employer social security contributions to the employee, the minimum wage and non-taxable income levels, tax rates will change. There are fears that these changes wouldn‘t reduce salaries for […]
Economy
Government mulls tax reform closed meeting
Lithuania’s government discussed at a closed meeting on Monday the draft tax reform prepared by the Finance Ministry, sources told BNS. […]
Economy
EP member: Baltic states should be strong on Rail Baltica project
Amid the increasingly heated discussions in the Baltic states about the financing of the European-gauge Rail Baltica project from European Union (EU) funds, Wim van de Camp of the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee says that the three Baltic states would definitely secure European funding for the project, if they are strong and demonstrate determination for the huge investment. […]
Society
Politics
Putin, Stalin have same goal – Worldwide Congress of Crimean Tatars’ leader in Vilnius
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has the same plan for Crimean Tatars as the Soviet Union’s former dictator Stalin did, when he wanted to expel them from the peninsula, Refat Chubarov, president of the Worldwide Congress of Crimean Tatars and a member of Ukraine’s Supreme Rada, said in Vilnius on Monday. […]
Society
Brzezinski was European American – Lithuania’s Landsbergis
Cold War strategist and politician Zbigniew Brzezinski always had an impact upon US policies, regardless of the president in power, and his death is an enormous loss, says Vytautas Landsbergis, speaker of Lithuania’s Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas […]
Defence
Guzas takes post as Lithuania’s new Air Force commander
Colonel Dainius Guzas, the new commander of Lithuania’s Air Force, was inaugurated into the position at a ceremony in the Air Force headquarters in Kaunas on Monday. […]
Society
Lithuania’s Jewish Community re-elects Kukliansky as leader
The Jewish Community of Lithuania re-elected Faina Kukliansky for the second term as its chairperson at an election on Sunday, while her competitor Simonas Gurevicius dismissed the vote as unlawful and pledged to turn to court. […]