At a meeting with Russia’s envoy on Thursday, NATO ambassadors asked him questions about the scale and scenario of the large-scale Zapad 2017 military exercise scheduled to take place next to Lithuania this September, says Lithuania’s Ambassador to the Alliance Vytautas Leškevičius. […]
On July 14 the Vilnius Airport will begin its runway reconstruction which will last 35 days. If all planned work is completed earlier, the airport will still reopen as planned – on August 18, the […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has pledged to sign legal amendments on reforms of the forestry sector, giving a critical opinion of the process of their adoption. […]
Municipality of the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda intends to found a School for Sea Cadets. […]
The real campaigning for the presidential elections will begin and the main candidates to the post of president will only really appear with 3-4 months left to the elections says political scientist Vincentas Vobolevičius and […]
Having overcome the somewhat extended Seimas spring session, members of Seimas evaluate the work accomplished ambiguously. The majority “Farmers” take pride in counting passed legislation, which is to supposedly deal with various “weeds”, while the […]
Polish geologists have found that the structure of Vilnius’ landmark Gediminas Hill is more permeable to water than thought, a factor that accelerates landslides. […]
Forecasters warn that heavy downpours and strong winds may hit Lithuania again on Thursday. […]
Moldova and the Tatar khanates were neighbouring political formations of the Great Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) territories between the Dniestr and Dniepr rivers in the 15th century. These lands of the GDL stood out for their differing climate, the steppes that spread out across them, and the few settled people that lived there. […]
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office is not opening, at least for now, a public interest case over damage done to Gediminas Hill in downtown Vilnius, but is asking the government to initiative a comprehensive assessment of the circumstances. […]
As forecasters warn of downpours in Vilnius, the Lithuanian Culture Ministry has decided to close the capital’s Gediminas Hill for visitors until next Monday due to a risk of further landslides. […]
Vilnius Airport, Lithuania’s largest international airport that was built 85 years ago, will be closed for 35 days on Thursday night for runway reconstruction work, with most airlines diverting part of their flights to Kaunas Airport, some 100 kilometers away from the capital. […]
“We see the Social Democrats as being in a very convenient situation – being in the coalition, not voting for strategic reform, occupying the posts of ministers and committee chairmen, using all the privileges, but […]
Members of the presidium of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) plan to meet in Vilnius on Thursday to discuss the situation in the ruling coalition. […]
The Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) said on Wednesday that it had asked President Dalia Grybauskaitė to veto the parliament’s decision to transpose into national law an EU directive without listing partners as family members. […]
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) will likely decide in late September or early October whether or not to stay in the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), Gintautas Paluckas, the LSDP chairman, said on Wednesday. […]
I have written a short Facebook comment in Lithuanian regarding the latest meltdown within the local liberal circles, but this story is worth expanding on. The gist of the matter is that Remigijus Šimašius, the […]
After Lithuanian politicians have reached agreement on reintroducing a reduced VAT rate for district heating, a lower rate will likely start to be applied as soon as this fall, Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka said. […]
Today marks eight years of President Dalia Grybauskaitė in the post of head of state. In recent years of her second term she continued to adhere to her style and methods of work – criticizing […]
In March 2016, Ms. Merkel and Mr. Erdogan reached an agreement on refugees, which would eventually involve all of Europe. Countless refugees, namely Syrians, were trying to reach Europe and in particular Germany, where public opinion slowly started to show signs of opposition to their reception. […]
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