Egdūnas Račius
CORPORATE

E. Račius: Radical Islamists thundering into Lithuania

About twenty years ago the rock group Antis terrified their audiences with zombies that were rolling-on in. Now it’s the turn of Islamist radicals that are rolling-on in, or maybe that have already rolled in; […]

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Economy

Israel’s Simplex Payment Services to develop payment platform in Lithuania

Simplex, an Israeli financial technology (fintech) and cybersecurity start-up, has chosen Lithuania ahead of the likes of Luxembourg, Cyprus and the UK as the location for its new global supervision and sales team. The company plans to employ around 20 experts in sales, support, Fraud analysis, marketing, information technologies, data analytics, quality supervision and finance in the coming couple of years, Invest Lithuania announced in a press release. […]

Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
Society

Lithuania should strengthen the protection of women, children and disable

“While considerable progress has been achieved in protecting human rights in recent years, the Lithuanian authorities still have to address some remaining shortcomings, in particular as regards the protection of women, children and persons with disabilities” said Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, in a report released today based on a visit to the country carried out in December 2016, the Council of Europe reported in a press release. […]

Algis Vaičeliūnas
Defence

General to take helm of Lithuanian Military Academy

Brigadier General Algis Vaičeliūnas will become the chief of the Lithuanian Military Academy, the Defence Ministry has said. […]

Mindaugas Bastys and Irena Šiaulienė
Politics

SocDems to vote against conclusion that MP Bastys acted against Lithuania’s interests

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the junior partner in the ruling coalition, will not support a parliamentary committee’s conclusion that Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the LSDP political group in the Seimas, acted against the interests of the Lithuanian state by maintaining close and constant contacts with representatives of Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom. […]

Lithuanian passport
CORPORATE

Šinkūnas: dual citizenship cannot be legalized on political grounds

Politicians have been saying for years that the legalization of dual citizenship would become a proof that the state cares about its citizens, but from the talks for continued to progress there was not enough […]