Defence
Air defense exercise kicks off in Lithuania
The Tobruq Legacy 2017 air defense exercise gets underway in the district of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania, on Tuesday. […]
Month: July 2017
Society
Migration body can’t review Russian journalist asylum decision now
The Lithuanian Migration Department currently cannot review its decision not to grant asylum to Yevgeni Titov, a Russian journalist, its director said on Monday. […]
CORPORATE
After a blow to the cabinet – increasingly bad scenarios
Saulius Skvernelis‘ cabinet is opposed not only by the partner Social Democrats, but also a number of allies. The cabinet is operating in isolation without support in Seimas and this situation can no longer even […]
Defence
US deploys Patriot system in Lithuania for air defense drills
The United States on Monday deployed a long-range air defense system Patriot, which is capable of downing missiles, in Lithuania for air defense drills to be held in July, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said. […]
Economy
Experts see inequalities, increasing prices as possible reasons for emigration from Lithuania
An increase in Lithuania’s official emigration rate in the first half of 2017 could be due to living standard inequalities or rising prices and another possible reason is that more people reported their departure this year, experts told BNS. […]
Politics
Russian nationalist Gorsky to apply for political asylum in Lithuania
Yuri Gorsky, an organizer of “Russian Marches”, plans to apply for political asylum in Lithuania after fleeing Russia. […]
CORPORATE
Presidential elections: Grybauskaitė‘s influence and whether Skvernelis can win
The incumbent head of state Dalia Grybauskaitė retains a high level of popularity and could have significant influence with her support for any candidate in the presidential race. On the other hand, political analyst Tomas […]
Global LT
Lithuania’s H1 emigration 10,000 above 2016 level
Some 31,731 persons declared emigration from Lithuania in January through June this year, which is a steep increase by about 10,000 persons, from 21,248, year-on-year, Statistics Lithuania said on Monday. […]
CORPORATE
A blow to the cabinet – opposition performs an unexpected manoeuvre
The Seimas Committee of Environmental Protection has struck a blow to the cabinet in its deliberations of the Forestry Law amendments. The cabinet reform proposal has been refused and instead a Social Democrat proposal is […]
Politics
Politics
Opinion
The Third World War will start sooner
George Friedman – one of the smartest geopolitics scientist in the United States predicted the Third World War will start in circa 2050. Then two new power centers – Japan and Turkey, – supposedly, will […]
Society
Culture
Lithuania wants to move culture attache to US from Washington to New York
Lithuania’s Culture Ministry wants the country’s culture attache to reside in New York instead from the current location of Washington D.C. […]
CORPORATE
Promised wage increases could turn out to be a mirage
The majority and government institutions are celebrating the new Labour Code, however it does not appear they are certain how to practically apply it. Furthermore for the near future they do not intend to penalise […]
Society
Lithuania takes in 4 Afghans who worked with Lithuanian troops
Four local men who worked with Lithuanian troops in Afghanistan have come to live in Lithuania, with one of them still waiting for asylum, the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces told BNS. […]
Defence
Court sentences Russian to 10 years in prison for spying
The Vilnius Regional Court on Friday sentenced Nikolai Filipchenko, a Russian citizen, to ten years in prison for spying. […]
Uncategorized
Sweden’s Wallstrom assures Lithuania’s Linkevičius on Belarus
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says he was assured by his Swedish colleague that the Swedish MP’s initiative to block criticism for Belarus at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) did not reflect the entire country’s position. […]
CORPORATE
Social Democrats may depart the coalition in autumn?
“The stress test of our coalition with the “Farmers” will be in autumn during the formation of the budget. Then we will see how to act,” Social Democrat leader Gintautas Paluckas told LRT.lt when asked […]
Foreign affairs
Pavilionis – Trump’s message to the world – hear out our region
Whatever US President Donald Trump may have said today at the Warsaw Uprising monument, just the fact that his second trip abroad was to Poland is something we should be happy about. While much of […]