August 2017 - Page 4 of 16 - the Lithuania Tribune

Military-style haute couture collection of “Shantanu & Nikhil” highlighted patriotism in Lithuania (video)

August 25, 2017 EN.DELFI 0

Last week in Vilnius the internationally acclaimed Indian designer duo “Shantanu & Nikhil” presented their 2017 autumn/winter haute couture collection called “The Regiment” during the solemn celebration of the 70th Anniversary of India‘s Independence. Militaristic style collection presented strict silhouettes of both female and male models, dusk, camouflage color palette and accessories inspired by the military – collars, vertical pockets, epaulets, handcrafted vintage coin buttons & rustic medallions, the special accent of the collection – hand-made brooches encrusted with Swarovski crystals. […]

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Dalia Grybauskaitė

Lithuanian, German presidents visit German troops in Rukla

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian and German presidents on Friday visited German military personnel stationed in Rukla, in the central Lithuanian district of Jonava. […]

School year extended by 10 days, national defense, sex education courses added

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s new school year starting next week will be ten days longer and several new subjects, including national security and defense and sexuality and family life education, will be added to the curriculum, officials said on Friday. […]

Lithuanian customs officers nab 75 kilos of hashish

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian customs officers have seized a shipment of 75 kilograms of hashish in the eastern town of Zarasai, the Customs Criminal Service said. […]

Lithuania in for cool weekend with showers

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania is in for a cool weekend with showers forecast across the country, the Hydrometeorological Service said. […]

S. Skvernelis ratings compared to the weather

August 25, 2017 Dalia Plikune 0

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ ratings are plummeting because he is not fulfilling the Farmer Greens’ pledges to turn to the people, states Mykolas Romeris University docent, political scientist Virgis Valentinavičius. Meanwhile the Prime Minister’s advisor […]

Lithuanians in UK to be educated on human trafficking

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

An awareness campaign will be launched in the United Kingdom, the country with the largest number of reported cases of Lithuanian nationals sold into slavery and abused, to educate local Lithuanians on human trafficking, the Lithuanian Interior Ministry said. […]

Interior ministry drops plans to merge financial crimes agency with other bodies

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian Interior Ministry told BNS on Friday that it had abandoned plans to merge the Financial Crimes Investigation Service (FCIS) with other bodies. […]

Seimas renews discussion about granting president’s status to Landsbergis

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

A new attempt will be made to grant the status of a former president and associated guarantees to Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first factual post-Soviet leader who held the post of the speaker of the Supreme Council–Reconstituent Seimas. […]

Steinmeier to visit German troops stationed in Lithuania

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to visit German troops stationed in Rukla, in the central Lithuanian district of Jonava, on Friday, the second day of his official visit to Lithuania. […]

Lithuanian’s Jews appreciate German president’s attention to Holocaust victims

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

As German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday plans to pay homage to the Holocaust victims in Paneriai, outside Vilnius, the leader of the Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL) says that they highly appreciate such attention. […]

Agrimin not keen on moving ministry to Kaunas

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Bronius Markauskas is now not so keen on moving his ministry from Vilnius to Kaunas, an idea he was enthusiastic about some time ago. […]

German troops to stay in Lithuania until security situation changes – Steinmeier

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

German troops leading NATO‘s multinational battalion in Lithuania will be present in the country until the security situation improves, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]

Former PM Andrius Kubilius speaking at the President Adamkus Conference in Vilnius University

Ukrainian president awards Lithuania’s ex-PM Kubilius

August 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has honored Andrius Kubilius, a former Lithuanian prime minister, with a high state award, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported on Thursday. […]

Mantas Kuncaitis. What are the implications Russia’s hybrid warfare pose for the European Security? (Part 1)

August 25, 2017 Mantas Kuncaitis 0

Throughout the last decade the traditional warfare has been changing drastically – some of the strongest political and military forces have become used to addressing something what is perceived as hybrid threats or hybrid warfare. […]

Zapad’s observers to see if Russia takes troops out of Belarus – Lithuanian president

August 24, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday that she expects that observers will be able to see if Russia will take its troops out of Belarus after next month’s Zapad military exercise is over, but she did not comment on whether there are indications that Russian military personnel may stay in the neighboring country. […]

Russian arms inspectors to perform observation flight over Lithuania

August 24, 2017 BNS EN 0

Russian arms control inspectors will carry out an observation flight over Lithuania on Thursday under the Treaty on Open Skies, the Defense Ministry said. […]

Government to keep up pressure on Belarus over N-plant, to seek good economic ties

August 24, 2017 BNS EN 0

Members of the Lithuanian Cabinet agreed on Thursday to keep up the pressure on Belarus over the safety of the Astravyets nuclear power plant, but at the same time to seek to develop good economic relations with the neighboring country, an advisor to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said. […]

Visvaldas Matijošaitis, Saulius Skvernelis

Presidential elections: a meat grinder predicted in the centre right

August 24, 2017 Media Briefing 0

Potential non-partisan, independent presidential candidates are gradually surfacing in the centre right which can be relatively identified as being the electorates of Liberal and Conservative political powers. The names of Gitanas Nausėda, Andrius Tapinas and […]

Presidential election forecast from former PM and G. Landsbergis advisor

August 24, 2017 Jonas Survila 0

Making predictions about the 2019 presidential elections today is like trying to predict the end of the seventh season of Game of Thrones just as the first season begins. However perhaps the competing “families” are already visible, former political advisor to MP Andrius Kubilius and the Conservative party chairman Gabrielius Landsbergis wrote on this Facebook wall? […]