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Energy

Advice on Astravyets N-plant in tune with Foreign Ministry – Energy Institute chief

Participation of Lithuanian scientists in a project to provide advice to Belarus on the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) was coordinated with the Foreign Ministry, says Sigitas Rimkevicius, the head of the Energy Institute. Meanwhile, the ministry’s official says it was a slap in the face. […]

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Economy

Large-scale landscaping project starts in Lithuania’s Curonian Spit – daily

A large-scale landscaping project is getting underway in the Lithuanian part of the Curonian Spit this fall with plans to open up and form new spaces and remove woody vegetation from dunes on an area of almost 700 hectares over three years, the daily Lietuvos Zinios reported on Thursday. […]

Saulius Skvernelis
Politics

Social Democrat leader’s comments on Belarus’ N-plant sound like Kremlin’s voice – PM

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that public comments by Gintautas Paluckas, the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), on Lithuania’s efforts to block imports from a new nuclear power plant that Belarus in building some 50 kilometers from Vilnius “sound like the Kremlin’s voice”. […]

Gintautas Paluckas
Politics

Social Democrats leader: ministers, panel chairs to have week to decide on posts

Should the council of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party endorse the strife stated by the majority of the party’s branches to leave the ruling coalition with the Farmers and Greens Union, the party’s ministers and heads of parliamentary committees will have a week to decide on their future in the posts, says Social Democrats’ leader Gintautas Paluckas. […]