The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office said on Tuesday that prosecutors have completed their pre-trial investigation into a case in which Rolandas Paksas, a Lithuanian member of the European Parliament, and Gedvydas Vainauskas, CEO of the media group Lietuvos Rytas, are suspected of influence peddling, and have handed the case over to court. […]
Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, the speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, is coming to Lithuania on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania will next year join the elite club of NATO member states spending 2 percent of GDP on defense, but Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis believes that the country should not stop after reaching the target. […]
The Lithuanian parliament has opened its autumn session. Here is a look at the session’s potentially most-contentious bills: […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė will Monday confer a state award upon prominent poet, publicist, essayist and translator Tomas Venclova. […]
The Polish interior minister has decided to include in new Polish passports an image of the grave of Jozef Pilsudski‘s mother and the Polish interwar leader’s heart in Vilnius. […]
Lithuania’s defense spending in the future will depend on available budget funds and the needs of its Armed Forces, Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, said on Monday, clarifying his position on the matter. […]
The decision was taken by the Lithuanian committee of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Frost, which is the latest work of the filmmaker Šarūnas Bartas, competed for the right to run for the prestigious award in the category of the best foreign language film with the other two candidates – The Saint directed by Andrius Blaževičius (2016) and Together For Ever by Lina Lužytė (2016). […]
The Vilnius Regional Court on Monday resumed, after a break of more than two months, proceedings in a mass trial over the January 13, 1991 bloody events in Vilnius with testimonies from victims of the Soviet military crackdown on pro-independence demonstrators. […]
The number of people coming to live to Lithuania went up this summer, while emigration numbers slightly declined, however, the number of emigrants still remains above that of immigrants, Statistics Lithuania said on Monday. […]
If you can find a sparrow, you will find a Lithuanian, an old saying goes. There are more than a million people of Lithuanian decent living outside of Lithuania, more than a half of this number in the USA alone.
Augustinas Žemaitis is a keen traveller who has been to more than 90 countries so far. In his numerous websites, he seeks not only to present Lithuania to foreigners and, but also to introduce Lithuanians to the countless traces of Lithuania that exist all over the world.
The Lithuania Tribune meet Augustinas to talk about it, before he is gone on the “Destination – America” journey, which will be his largest Lithuanian-locations-search journey so far, covering 11 states of the USA. […]
Journalist and reviewer Rimvydas Valatka has been appointed as editor-in-chief of the Lithuanian national news agency ELTA, the company said on Monday. […]
After Lithuania begins next year to earmark 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) to defence, financing of the sector should not grow any further, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]
Couple of weeks ago Lithuania’s former President Valdas Adamkus in his speech on regional leadership said that Lithuania gave up its leadership in the Eastern European and Baltic region which we have been demonstrating a […]
Lithuania’s Environment Minister Kęstutis Navickas is going to the Montenegrin resort of Budva this week to join the international community for a meeting, which will discuss, among other matters, the security of the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus. […]
Diana Korsakaitė, former chairperson of the Lithuanian National Commission for Energy Control and Prices, told international arbitration about pressure made by President Dalia Grybauskaitė over heating tariffs of Vilniaus Energija (Vilnius Energy) that is operated by French concern Veolia, 15min.lt news portal said on Monday. […]
NATO fighter-jets serving in the air-policing mission of the Baltic states were last week scrambled three times from Lithuania to intercept Russian warplanes flying above the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]
Copyright © 2026 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes