Society
Government to discuss contracts of joint operations for cohabitants
Lithuania’s government will Wednesday discuss the possibility for persons living in cohabitation to regulate their relationship by contracts of joint operations. […]
Year: 2017
Politics
Lithuania celebrating 25 years of Constitution
Wednesday marks 25 years since the adoption of Lithuania’s main law, the Constitution. […]
Culture
Journalist wins competition for Lithuania’s culture attache to New York
Gražina Michnevičiūtė, journalist and editor-in-chief of the magazine Moteris, has won a competition for Lithuania’s culture attache to New York, the Culture Ministry said. […]
Economy
Rebuilding Renge will show neighbors Lithuania’s good will – Transport minister
After Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG) announced its plans to rebuild a railway stretch to Renge dismantled nearly a decade ago to eliminate a violation that led to a European Commission (EC) fine, Lithuania’s Transport and Communication Minister Rokas Masiulis says the rebuilding is a political step, not just an economic move. […]
Politics
Farmers downplays absence of formal majority in Seimas
Leaders of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) have downplayed the fact that the party has been left without a ruling majority in the parliament, saying the number of majority votes would be demonstrated during the upcoming adoption of the 2018 budget. […]
CORPORATE
When sleeping on a gunpowder barrel
Life in marriage, joint business or political parties is easy when one lacks for nothing and things are going well. The real test only comes when things go awry and misfortune strikes. Two establishment parties […]
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Economy
Politics
Over 100 NGOs, academicians call on president to veto family law
Eighty non-governmental organizations and almost 30 academicians have asked Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė to veto the recently-passed Law on the Strengthening of the Family. […]
CORPORATE
How will the Lithuanian political landscape change?
It appears we have forgotten the ancient Greek saying that there is nothing more constant than change. Or who could have thought that the seemingly monolithic Social Democrat Party would break up? What of the […]
Global LT
Lithuanian firefighter to run from Dakar to Vilnius
Aidas Ardzijauskas, a 46-year-old Lithuanian fire-and-rescue officer and ultra-distance runner, on Tuesday is starting an 8,000-kilometer run from Senegal’s capital of Dakar to Vilnius. […]
Global LT
Lithuania can’t lower turnout for dual citizenship referendum
Lithuania cannot lower the minimum turnout threshold for a referendum on dual citizenship, but it can rally politicians and the public to ensure that such a plebiscite takes place, the chief advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday. […]
Culture
Matelis wins Best Documentary at Warsaw Film Festival
‘Wonderful Losers. A Different World”, from Lithuanian film director Arūnas Matelis, was awarded the Best Documentary Feature at the 33rd edition of the International Warsaw Film Festival (WFF). As the winner at one of the top eight ‘A’ class film festivals (along with Cannes, Venice and Berlin) in Europe, Arūnas Matelis’ documentary will also be eligible in the selection for the European Film Academy Awards, Kino Komunikacija wrote in a press release. […]
History
Researchers ask Government to fund genetic testing of 1863 uprising leaders’ remains
Researchers expect to confirm after genetic testing that the remains of Žigmantas Sierakauskas (Zygmunt Sierakowski) and Konstantinas Kalinauskas (Konstanty Kalinowski), the leaders of the 1863 uprising against Tsarist Russia, are among those found on the Gediminas Hill in downtown Vilnius, but say this would require additional funding. […]
Defence
Economy
Police chief proposes to restrict certain businesses, cash transactions
Lithuanian Police Commissioner General Linas Pernavas sees the frequent use of cash as a key factor in the shadow economy and proposes to consider imposing restrictions on marketplaces and construction, transport and car trade businesses, which he says are the sectors where grey activities are most widely spread. […]
Economy
Authorities seek more control over Orlen Lietuva, Achema, Telia Lietuva deals
The Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on Economics seeks to set clear-cut criteria under companies important for national security would have to notify the government about large transactions. […]
Politics
Russia condemns Biržai town decision to place signs at monuments to Soviet soldiers
Russia condemned on Monday a decision by the local authority of the nothern Lithuanian district of Biržai to put up special explanatory signs next to monuments to Soviet soldiers to say that the inscriptions on these monuments do not correspond to historical truth. […]
CORPORATE
Potential presidential candidates begin saying what voters want to hear
Potential candidates in the presidential election have begun talking about social segregation and strengthening the regions and this helps them draw attention, notes political scientist Tomas Janeliūnas and economist Romas Lazutka. “For now this is […]
Society
How to act to attract girls?
You may not automatically become a dating loser if you don’t know how to attract a girl, but the lack of this knowledge will definitely make you suffer. Most of the problems that arise between men and women lies in the fact that the former rarely know how to attract girls. How else can you explain that huge number of articles about things girls find attractive floating all over the internet? While knowing what girls like can be useful, but the fact that each girl should be treated individually makes it really doubtful that you can know them for sure. One likes romantic movies, while another one hates them. So, the best is to know how to be attractive to girls, which we and pretty ladies online site going to check out. […]