MP Gintaras Steponavičius has dismissed as unfounded interpretations prosecutors’ suspicions that the Lithuanian Liberal Movement‘s 2016 parliamentary election campaign was partially financed from funds of Laisves Studijų Centras (Centre for Liberty Studies), saying that the centre’s projects were separated from the political party’s activities. […]
Vilnius prosecutors have sent the country’s Central Electoral Commission some new information about suspected illegal funding of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement‘s parliamentary election campaign, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Thursday. […]
Russia-based Kaspersky Lab’s software products pose a potential threat to Lithuania’s national security, the country’s government has stated. […]
The Russian-Belarussian exercise Zapad is defensive and poses no threat to neighbouring countries and the hysteria being incited by the Baltic States that it is an aggressive exercise aimed against NATO states is simply Russophobe […]
On the occasion of the cabinet’s first year, President Dalia Grybauskaitė handed it a gift wrapped in a newspaper – an interview to Lietuvos Žinios where she mercilessly criticised the ruling majority. The president stated […]
On behalf of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, his Foreign Policy Advisor Deividas Matulionis has expressed appreciation to Ambassador of Israel Amir Maimon for his gesture of solidarity and respect to Lithuanian freedom fight against the Soviet occupation, Prime Minister’s press office reported in a press release. […]
Thursday is the deadline for applying for the job of director general at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT). […]
Justice Minister Milda Vainiutė will this week appoint Robertas Krikštaponis as director of the Lithuanian Prison Department. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis admits that his government failed to achieve major reforms during its first year in office, but he expects key decisions on overhauling the higher education, tax and pension systems to be made next year. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed next year’s state budget bill into law, her office said on Wednesday. […]
Resident doctors’ salaries in Lithuania will be raised by 10 percent starting next January. […]
Lithuania on Tuesday relocated another 16 Syrian refugees under the European Union (EU) program on Tuesday, the Migration Department said. […]
The Lithuanian National Audit Office (NAO) expects to decide by mid-January whether or not to perform an audit of the public broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT). […]
The romantic attitude towards the pagan Lithuania, shaped in the 19th century, remains tenacious up to these days. Romantic authors, such as Teodor Narbutt and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski who wrote in Polish, saw the old Lithuania as a fairy tale country with an ideal state order and virtuous inhabitants. They were confident that the Lithuanian history of the 13th and 14h century was a period of “golden times”. This kind of standpoint made an essential impact on the leading figures of the Lithuanian national resurgence in the second half of the 19th century. They employed the visions of the pagan glory to wake the nation up considering the majority of people immature for high nationalist aspirations. […]
Candidates who openly speak about society’s pains – massive poverty, emigration, prices rises due to adopting the euro and who will not arrogantly deny existing problems can expect a successful showing at the presidential elections. […]
Around a month ago 66 members of Seimas called upon the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) council to answer a number of questions on employee wages and bonuses, relations with production companies, how public purchases […]
The deadline established two years ago for EU Member States to take in a fixed number of refugees has expired. Further ways of tackling the problem are currently under debate. In order to shape the […]
This year, Christmas in Vilnius is impressive indeed. We can boast a Christmas tree recognised the most beautiful one in Europe, plenty of festive events under the Christmas in the Capital 2017 Programme and even two Christmas Towns operating in the main squares of the city. Bustling with the season’s excitement and full of lovely goods, the Christmas Towns attract numerous visitors during Advent transforming Vilnius into a genuine Christmas Capital, the Vilnius’ Culture Center writes in a press release! […]
After Lithuanian parliamentarians sent additional questions to the national broadcaster LRT, the LRT council decided to request an audit by the State Audit Office. […]
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