Lithuania’s Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis has appointed a new defense policy director and the director general for capabilities and munitions as of Tuesday. […]
There are no specific reasons why the voters who voted for the “Farmers” are punishing them in the ratings now; there were expectations of change, for things to get better, but this did not materialise. […]
About 50 protesters gathered outside the office of the Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service on Thursday morning, calling for more attention to animal rights. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the government-proposed tax changes should ensure more social justice, while the current proposals will raise heating prices and the new ceiling on social insurance payments will further increase the income of those making the highest salaries. […]
Clothes, just like tableware, were a form of demonstrating the social prestige of certain individuals. In Lithuania, clothing could reveal a person’s social standing yet not always. No costume specific to city residents developed as the members of the elite followed the fashions set by the nobility. Poor city residents effectively dressed the same as peasants. […]
Lithuania’s Agriculture Minister Bronius Markauskas has decided to sack Danielius Kuprys from the post of director of the National Land Service. […]
The penal system in Lithuania is rather rotten and in need of radical reforms, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said after reports about new violations in the Kaunas Remand Prison. […]
Russian citizen Nikolai Filipchenko sentenced in Vilnius in early July on charges of spying has filed an appeal against the verdict. […]
Law-enforcement officers of the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda have completed an investigation into forced labor in the United Kingdom, filing suspicions against a resident of the Klaipėda district and two British citizens with human trafficking. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis disagrees with the proposal made by their coalition partners, the Social Democrats, to lower the value-added tax (VAT) tariff on food products, saying that the step would not lower prices. […]
Lithuanian diplomat Kęstutis Jankauskas is being appointed as the European Union’s (EU) ambassador to Azerbaijan, representatives of the community’s delegation to Baku confirmed on Wednesday . […]
Lithuania’s Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Johnsson has reversed her Tuesday’s decision of not refusing to accept resignation from her adviser Linas Kontrimas, announcing plans to dismiss him. […]
The number of Lithuanians thinking that the country’s economic situation is good has declined, the recent Eurobarometer survey has shown. […]
The Kaunas Remand Prison, which was recently scrutinized by a few control institutions and checked by the Lithuanian Justice Ministry, has been subjected to new checks after its chief accountant Rasa Kazėnienė again turned to the ministry. […]
Lithuania’s former education and science minister Audronė Pitrėnienė confused her public and private interest by taking care of the premises of King Mindaugas Vocational Education Center and later taking a post in the center, the Chief Official Ethics Commission found on Wednesday. […]
The European Central Bank evaluated the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian economies, also warning regarding future threats. There are three of them, but the very first is how to maintain competitiveness, which is declining due to […]
Partners in Lithuania’s ruling coalition, the Social Democrats, suggest introducing a reduced value-added tax (VAT) on main food products and again proposed progressive taxes, says Andrius Palionis, elder of the party’s political group. […]
Lithuania’s ruling coalition is working in a stable and consistent manner, Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis after a meeting of the coalition’s political council. […]
“Žygimantas Pavilionis and Vygaudas Ušackas may have already officially stated their intent to participate in the 2019 presidential elections, but for now everything is at the level of deliberations. I have heard that Ingrida Šimonytė […]
While Lithuania still struggles to defend equal rights for all her citizens, some of them are tired of waiting and are starting to take brave initiatives to change their society themselves. One such initiative is the Friendly Kaunas map, launched on Monday, July 31st. 10,000 free copies will be distributed across Kaunas, Lithuania’s second city. […]
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