Mantas Bartuška
Economy

Lietuvos Geležinkeliai plans restructuring, to sack part of administration

Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG), the state-run railway company, plans to restructure the group and give up some of the unnecessary property. Mantas Bartuška, the company’s CEO, does not rule out entering the stock exchange in the future. […]

Russian Ambassador Alexander Udaltsov
CORPORATE

Russian ambassador: Lithuania owes Russia 72 billion US dollars

After another May passed placing a flower crown placed near the monument commemorating those that had perished during Lithuania’s road to freedom, with the before mentioned action the Russian ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov raised quite a few eyebrows: could the denier of Lithuania’s occupation, Moscow have changed its mind and is finally admitting the historic fact with all of its potential consequences? The newest interview with the Russian Ambassador to Lithuania dispelled such hopes. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Foreign affairs

President before visit to Kharkov: It is Ukraine’s city of strength

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Kharkov in eastern Ukraine on Friday to meet with President Petro Poroshenko, saying that the city had been chosen in sign of respect to the people of Ukraine fighting for freedom. […]

Mindaugas Bastys
Politics

12 Lithuanian MPs failed to apply for access to classified info

Thirteen Lithuanian parliamentarians have not applied for permits to work with classified information, although they should have the permits to perform their functions, Darius Jauniškis, director of the State Security Department, said on Thursday. […]

During the Zapad 2013 training
Defence

President sees Zapad, Belarus N-plant as key threats to transatlantic security

The world clearly understands that key threats to transatlantic security in our region arise from the militarization of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the Zapad military exercise and BelarusAstravyets nuclear power plant, which has become a geopolitical weapon, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday. […]