Holding hands
Politics

Government says joint activity agreement not suitable for regulating cohabitation

The Lithuanian government has criticized lawmakers’ proposal that relations between people living together be regulated by agreements on joint activity, rather than by partnership agreements. […]

A happy couple
Society

Fear of relationships

Time after time you feel desperate to get into a relationship and to commit to some imaginary partner. But as soon as the possibility to get into a relationship is right in front of you, you are doing your best to avoid it. Why? The answer is simple, you have a fear of relationships. It may take many forms, but it always ends this way, at the very last moment you refuse the possibility of dating someone. Let’s with Natasha single dating have a look why sometimes we are afraid to get into relationships. […]

Alma Vaitkunskienė
Politics

Vaitkunskienė stays as director of Vilnius administration

Alma Vaitkunskienė keeps her job as director of the Vilnius administration after surviving a vote on her dismissal in the city’s council on Wednesday. […]

Missing child
Society

Chief prosecutor notes rising number of missing children

Although the official statistics does not reflect the actual number of children missing in Lithuania, Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis notes an increasing the number of long-term missing cases that could be linked with human trafficking or sexual or criminal abuse. […]

UN peacekeepers in action
Opinion

Three suggestions to UN on how to prevent future atrocities

The names and places associated with the atrocities that stain the world’s recent history are only too well known: Guernica, Babi Yar, Sharpeville, Treblinka, Hiroshima, Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica and, more recently, Aleppo and Yemen, to name but a few. The memories of those who have suffered are as painful as the list is long in a joint article writes the Swedish Ambassador Maria Christina Lundqvist, and Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Viceminister Neris Germanas. […]

Viktoras Pranskietis
Politics

Coalition talks possible with Polish party group, not Tomaszewski – Seimas’ speaker

Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis does not rule out that the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) would hold coalition talks with the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Union of Christian Families amid the lack of formal majority. […]