Politics
Websites of Lithuanian govt, ministries back online
Websites of the Lithuanian government, ministries and e-government went back online after being down for a few hours on Monday morning. […]
Year: 2017
European Union
Lithuanian leaders convey condolences over London terror
Lithuanian leaders on Sunday expressed condolences over the terrorist attacks in London, which took innocent lives. […]
Politics
Websites of Lithuanian govt, ministries down due to power failure
Websites of the Lithuanian government, ministries and e-government are offline on Monday due to faults in electricity supplies. […]
Uncategorized
Lithuania starting to build fence on border with Russia
Lithuania is Monday starting to build a protective fence on the border with the Russian Kaliningrad region. […]
History
Lithuanians view Brazauskas as most deserved president
Algirdas Brazauskas is considered the president of Lithuania who has made the biggest contribution for the country, shows a poll carried out by Spinter Tyrimai (Spinter Surveys) company for the news portal delfi.lt. […]
Economy
Winner 2017 German-Lithuanian Business Award announced
Happy winners: At the awards ceremony on 31 May in the Art Factory „LOFTAS“ in Vilnius, Aedilis UAB won the German-Lithuanian Business Award. The company also won the online voting against their competitors. […]
Uncategorized
Advised to show solidarity with Poland in probe of Smolensk air crash
Lithuania’s parliament is advised to show solidarity with the neighboring Poland and state support to the resumed investigation of the 2010 airliner crash that claimed lives of then president Lech Kaczynski and another 95 individuals. […]
CORPORATE
Secret tax plan – interest in giving up on one of the main promises is expressed
The Government has prepared a plan for tax reconstruction which was already presented to both the Peasant and Green Union and the social democrats on Wednesday, and will be presented to the public on Friday. […]
History
Origins of the Kernavė’s thunder God Perkūnas
A bearded, long haired man with an austere face that is depicted by a 12 cm bronze sculpture is the most famous archeological find over the last 150 years, which made Kernavė famous. The man’s nakedness is covered with a cloth kerchief which is draped over his right hand and turned over hi s hips. We see an object of unclear origins in his elevated left hand that is decorated with wavy lines; in his right hand, the man is also holding something, however only a hole in the hand remains. There is a vertical hole one and a half centimeters in diameter in the sculpture. By the middle of the 19th century, they believed that they’d found in Kernavė, a sculpture of the pagan god of Thunder, Perkūnas. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s consul general recalled from Almaty after reports of visa fraud
Lithuania’s consul general Regimantas Jablonskas was recalled from Kazakhstan‘s largest city of Almaty following reports about non-transparent visa issuing. […]
Global LT
35th Annual BAFL – Baltic American Freedom League’s Banquet
The 35th annual BAFL- Baltic American Freedom League’s awards banquet took place on Saturday April 29th, 2017 at 4pm at the Latvian Community Center, 1955 Riverside Dr., Los Angeles, California. […]
Society
Society
Lithuania’s emergency service warns of strong winds Friday
The Lithuanian Fire and Rescue Department has warned of strong winds in much of the country on Friday and urged people to be cautious. […]
Economy
CORPORATE
Commander of Norwegian tank platoon knows what she would do if she saw Russian tanks in Lithuania
Reis opp, Tiden er inne! (Norwegian: “Get up, the time is now!”). Lt. Silje Johansen Willassen would use this slogan to motivate her 15 soldiers from the mechanized infantry company before battle, which is deployed […]
CORPORATE
Why Paluckas is not aspiring for a seat in the Seimas?
Beginning from the election of the chairman of the social democrat party many questions were raised pertaining to the fact that Gintautas Paluckas not being a Member of Parliament. However, the before mentioned fact about […]
CORPORATE
In 2 weeks’ airplanes in Vilnius will land with different air traffic control system
In preparation for the reconstruction of the aircraft runways in Vilnius airport beginning in a month and a half, pilots are being forewarned about temporary changes. Thus, it is foreseen that for two weeks’ time […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania regrets US decision to withdraw from Paris climate deal
Lithuanian officials on Friday expressed their regret at the US decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. […]
Defence
Lithuanian border guards refuse entry to Russian military team
Lithuanian border guards late on Thursday detained a Russian military team on a transit train traveling from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the capital of Moscow, a spokesman for the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service said. […]
Economy
PM pledges extra EUR 500 mln for pensions, children, poverty reduction in 2018
The Lithuanian government plans to earmark an additional 500 million euros in next year’s budget for pensions, children and poverty reduction, with more than 4 billion euros to be allocated for this purpose in total, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Friday. […]