Gintautas Paluckas
Politics

Dozens of Vilnius members leaving Lithuania’s Social Democrats

A few dozen members of the Vilnius office of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) have terminated membership in the political force. […]

VU student team Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM
Society

Vilnius university team wins the Grand Prize in iGEM competition

“Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM” team won the largest, most prestigious, international Synthetic Biology competition iGEM. Vilnius University students bested more than 300 teams from leading world universities. The team won the Grand Prize and received a gold medal as well as three special awards: for Best New Basic Part, Best New Composite Part and Best Part Collection, a press release from Vilnius University states. […]

Nerija Putinaitė
CORPORATE

Soviet nomenclature should not have been permitted to take positions of authority

If in independent Lithuania the Soviet nomenclature had been prohibited from occupying positions of authority, we’d be talking about the government in a completely different way. That’s what philosopher, writer and public figure Nerija Putinaitė […]

Gerald T. Smith (USA) with Lithuanian youth choir singers 1
Culture

Vilnius Gospel Music Festival

On November 12, the Vilnius Gospel Music Festival finale took place at Vilniaus kongresų rūmai. […]

Lithuanian passport
Society

Lithuanian parliament proposes total ban on legal gender recognition

On November 10th, 2017 the group of 31 MPs in the Lithuanian Parliament registered a legislative proposal, which aims at banning legal gender recognition (i.e. change of identity documents for transgender persons) and all medical procedures pertaining to gender reassignment treatment. This proposal stands in a sharp contrast with the jurisprudence of the national courts, granting legal gender recognition based on self-identification of a trans individual and corresponding mental diagnosis. If approved, Lithuania would become the only country within the broader region of the Council of Europe with an explicit ban on gender reassignment procedure, a press release from the Lithuanian Gay League states. […]

Saulius Skvernelis
Economy

PM says minimum wage to grow moderately, not to harm economy

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the minimum wage will grow moderately next year and will not have an adverse effect on the country’s competitiveness. […]