NATO fighter-jets patrolling Baltic airspace were scrambled four times last week to identify and escort Russian military aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said on Monday. […]
The Lithuanian Centre of Registers and the Migration Department have signed an agreement aimed at speeding up the issuance of temporary residence permits and visas to foreign business people. […]
Andrius Labašauskas, the winner of a competition for a monument to be installed in Vilnius’ central Lukiškių Square, says that the tradition of sculpture in art is obsolete, adding that he entered the contest to offer an alternative project. […]
Law-enforcement officials have detained eight suspects and conducted 40 searches in Lithuania and an unidentified foreign country in connection to a package waste management fraud scheme, the police said on Monday. […]
A memorial to freedom fighters resembling a forest and guerrilla bunkers will be built in the central Lukiškių Square in Vilnius. […]
Lithuania’s economy minister-designate Virginijus Sinkevičius says that the Tourism Department should be restructured to become a public establishment, adding that the current competition for its director should be annulled. […]
The Norwegian Embassy in Lithuania in cooperation with the Norwegian Chamber of Commerce hosted on Friday morning a presentation in the Comfort Hotel in Vilnius that allowed for a peek into the various parts that are transforming the energy puzzle. After opening remarks from Anne Sofie Bjelland, the Norwegian Chargé d’affaires, three specialists addressed innovation from very different angles and tackling very diverse aspects of changes affecting energy production and consumption. […]
The annual charity ball, continuing a worthy tradition, took place on November 17 in London organised by the Lithuanian community in the United Kingdom, the members of which, together with British representatives from business, politics, the arts and culture, demonstrated their solidarity with those who need help in Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union would appear to have completely backed away on one of its main electoral pledges. As a reminder, the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) programme featured the following statement: […]
Lithuania’s society is growing increasingly unhappy with the country’s health care system and Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga, shows a Vilmorus poll published in the daily newspaper Lietuvos Rytas on Saturday. […]
The popularity of Visvaldas Matijošaitis, mayor of Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas, continues growing, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
Ratings of the opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives, TS-LKD) and the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) remain stable, while the Social Democrats in third suffered a decline in popularity, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday appointed Virginijus Sinkevičius , chairman of the parliamentary Economic Committee and a member of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Green Union, as the country’s economy minister. […]
Adomas Danusevičius and Tomas Daukša are considered one of the most distinct Lithuanian artists of the young generation. Though they usually address quite different themes in their work, their newest works presented in this exhibition –painting, ceramics, and light installations – form an unexpected and mysterious combination, the Roosters Gallery announced in a press release.. […]
Lithuania’s government does not rule out cooperation with the International Criminal Court on the US Central Intelligence Agency‘s alleged prison near Vilnius, however, sticks to its version that Antaviliai accommodated an intelligence support center rather than a secret interrogation center. […]
The German government’s initiative to pay compensations to the so-called wolf children drew attention in Lithuania, with applications filed by at least 50 persons who came to Lithuania after World War II from East Prussia. […]
All of Europe is concerned about the Belarusian nuclear power plant project in Astravyets, which constantly comes under severe criticism from Lithuania due to its safety standards, says the European Commission’s President Jean-Claude Juncker, adding that Brussels would keep a close eye on the situation. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed the so-called Magnitsky Act into law, banning entry to foreigners involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering or human rights violations starting next year. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is attending a meeting of heads of governments of 16 Central and Eastern European nations with China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang in Hungary on Monday. […]
The so-called Istanbul Convention against abuse of women and domestic violence could be proposed for parliamentary ratification in Lithuania by the end of the year, says Vilma Šilalienė, deputy minister of social security and labour. […]
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