The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry is consulting foreign partners on the names of Russian officials to be blacklisted over corruption, money laundering or human rights violations after the country’s parliament passed the so-called Magnitsky law. […]
Ancient civilisations already knew how to use the energy of running water, but it was the Western European civilisation that developed a vast network of watermills during the Middle Ages. The abundance of swift-running rivers and constant increase of crop areas in Europe were the two important factors behind the spread of watermills that eventually got involved in various technological processes, including smithing, papermaking, wood processing and groundwater regulation. In technical sense, history of Western watermills apparently developed independently from the experience of other civilisations, although the initial impulses might have arrived from elsewhere. […]
Currently when evaluating our decision to establish a new political party, political analysts and our opponents deviate into a simplified conflict of people, apply the label of rebels, but do not analyse the real goals […]
Lithuania is sending its greetings to Latvia by a special coach as the neighboring country will mark its 99th anniversary of independence on Saturday. […]
Though the scandal caused by author Rūta Vanagaitė‘s statements about partisan leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas has subsided, the head of the Lithuanian Jewish Community Faina Kukliansky believes that this calm is only temporary. The English translation […]
Russia has no plans of raising the 2014 imports ban on pork from the European Union (EU), however, plans to move the restrictions to the list of political sanctions after the unfavourable decision by the World Trade Organization (WTO), says the EU food safety commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis of Lithuania. […]
Speech at Conference “Reflections on a Ravaged Century”
Library of Congress, Washington DC, 8-9 November 2017 […]
The United States may decide within the coming year to station yet another military brigade in Europe as part of the efforts to deter Russia, says Alexander Vershbow, NATO’s former deputy secretary general who now works as expert at the US international relations research centre Atlantic Council. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is Friday flying to Gothenburg, Sweden, for an European Union (EU) summit that will discuss economic inequality and social security. […]
The Lithuanian Liberal Movement, which has been battling a leadership crisis and recently lost state funding over financing violations, is also losing the support of the voters, shows a poll conducted by the market research company RAIT for BNS Lithuania. […]
Lithuania’s government will discuss three alternatives of raising wages for doctors, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga said on Thursday after negotiations with representatives of doctors. […]
Laimonas Čiakas, currently serving as director of the 1 st Audit Department of the National Audit Office, has been picked as the new chief of the Lithuanian National Land Service after winning a competition. Čiakas, 47, will be confirmed to the post after a credibility check by the law-enforcement. […]
The influential politicians who have left the Social Democrat ranks are gathering a new party and promise to propose that which they call the real social democracy. Such a slight by former colleagues is a […]
Seimas Committee of National Security and Defence (NSGK), which has been performing a parliamentary investigation on the links of politicians and businesses, chairman, “Farmer” Vytautas Bakas spoke of unreliable allies. Speaking with Delfi on Wednesday, […]
The Lithuanian parliament adopted on Thursday the so-called Magnitsky legislation banning entry to foreigners involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering or human rights violations. […]
The Lithuanian Constitutional Court decided on Thursday to open MP Kęstutis Pūkas’ sexual harassment impeachment case in his absence. […]
“The summit in Brussels should be forward-looking, injecting new dynamism providing a clear political vision for the future of our Eastern Partnership. Differentiation is key. As our resources are limited, the principle of ‘more for more and less for less’ should be implemented. We should focus our resources much more on those Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries who have made remarkable progress on their European path”, said Laima Andrikienė MEP, co-author of the European Parliament’s recommendations ahead of the EaP Summit on 24 November. […]
The Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday to put an end to efforts to approve adjustments to the Curonian Spit National Park’s maintenance plan, which means that illegal buildings on the sand dune peninsula, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will be pulled down. […]
The Lithuanian parliament decided on Thursday to award the Freedom Prize to Nijolė Sadūnaitė, a Roman Catholic nun and former Soviet-time dissident. […]
The Lithuanian parliament plans to adopt on Thursday the so-called Magnitsky legislation banning entry to foreigners involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering or human rights violations. […]
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