Politics
Year: 2017
Politics
Opposition in Panevėžys launches effort to oust mayor
Opposition members of the municipal council in Lithuania’s fifth-biggest city of Panevėžys have launched an effort to oust Mayor Rytis Mykolas Račkauskas, the local news website Jp.lt reported. […]
History
Papermaking in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Paper mills, their key characteristic being the use of water energy, were an important element of the technology revolution. The production of paper, which replaced parchment, encouraged the spread of literacy and book reading, because the price of paper could sometimes account to as much as half of all costs of printed materials. […]
Politics
One in 3 Lithuanian MPS publish info on their meetings – Transparency International
One out of three members of the Seimas made public information about their meetings with organizations and registered lobbyists during the Lithuanian parliament’s past spring session, Transparency International Lithuania said on Wednesday after analyzing parliamentarians’ official calendars and personal websites. […]
Defence
Seimas panel to get latest intelligence update on regional security
The Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee will Wednesday hear information about the regional security information from the State Security Department and the Second Investigations Department ahead of the Russian-Belarusian Zapad 2017 exercise due to kick off next week. […]
Culture
Remains of Vilnius Great Synagogue listed as cultural values
Remaining and underground remains of the Vilnius Great Synagogue have been listed in the register of cultural values, Lithuania’s Cultural Heritage Department said on Tuesday. […]
Foreign affairs
Moscow denies Putin’s list of demands to Lithuania’s president
Moscow denied on Tuesday that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had in 2010 submitted a list of demands to Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Energy
Lithuania, Poland to “shortly” sign deal on network synchronization, Latvia procrastinates (Updated)
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he has secured firm Polish support to synchronization of electricity grid with Western Europe via the existing power link, however, the remaining two Baltic states are still doubtful about the possibility. […]
Economy
Lithuanian contractor PST to renovate embassy in Moscow fow EUR 6.3 mln
Panevėžio Statybos Trestas (PST), one of Lithuania’s largest construction companies, will renovate the Lithuanian Embassy to Moscow. […]
Foreign affairs
Poland vows to consider Lithuanian stance on images of Vilnius Gate of Dawn in passport
Poland‘s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has pledged to take into consideration Lithuania’s objections before the government decides on illustration of Polish passports with images of the Vilnius Gate of Dawn. […]
CORPORATE
V. Matijošaitis to defer deciding on participating in the presidential elections until only a few months remain
“I honestly have to say that I also feel sorry for those trees. When I was a child I would gather chestnuts here on my way to school,” Kaunas mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis says, commenting about […]
Foreign affairs
PM sees potential of improving ties with Poland
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, currently on a visit in Poland, says he sees a good possibility to improve the bilateral relations, which are, in his opinion, marred by the wrong stereotypes over the situation of national minorities. […]
CORPORATE
B. Brunalas. “Farmer” policy method – between hypnosis and commands
The Farmer and Greens have been composing a political plotline which has been competing for the viewers’ attention for almost a year now. Intrigue, love, comedy and tear-jerking situations were featured. Unfortunately despite the tense […]
Society
Health minister suggests legalizing outdoor daycare
A task force set up by the Lithuanian minister of health has prepared a draft to legalize outdoor daycare centers, submitting the draft to other relevant institutions for further discussions. […]
Defence
Civil institutions will work under usual regime during Zapad exercise (Updated)
The governmental Extreme Situations Commission decided after a meeting at the Interior Ministry on Tuesday that institutions in charge of civil safety would work under a usual regime during the upcoming Russian-Belarusian Zapad 2017 training. […]
Uncategorized
PM invites Polish retail chain to Lithuania
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, currently on a visit in Poland, says he sees possibilities for a Polish retail chain to come to the Baltic state. […]
History
Written documents in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania oral culture
Pre-Christian Lithuania was a land of oral culture. Peter of Dusburg, the chronicler of the German Order, retold an ironic joke in the early 14th century about the pagans gazing at written characters for the first time: “[Prussians] did not use writing /…/ They were completely amazed to find out that a human was able to convey his wishes to another person, who was not here, through writing.” If we leave the theories about “Lithuanian runes” aside as legends, we can safely assume that Lithuanians did not use writing for communication between themselves until the late 14th century. […]
Foreign affairs
Skvernelis holds 3-hour meeting with Poland’s Kaczynski in Warsaw
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis met with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party, in Warsaw on Monday night. […]
Culture
Minister of culture sees plans to perform Belarus ballet Vytautas in Vilnius as provocation
Plans to perform the Belarusian-produced ballet Vytautas (Vitaut) in Vilnius next January and link it to the official program for celebrations of the centenary of the restoration of Lithuania’s statehood is a demonstration of soft power and provocation, Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson said. […]
Society
PM expects new Order of Malta projects in Lithuania
The Lithuanian government signed on Monday the first cooperation agreement with the Order of Malta, which has been carrying out charitable activities in the country for more that two decades now. […]