NATO karo lėktuvai
Foreign affairs

NATO jets escort 32 Russian aircraft over Baltic Sea in this year’s busiest week

NATO fighter jets serving in the Alliance’s air-policing mission in the Baltic countries were scrambled nine times last week to identify and escort Russian military aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea. […]

Gabrielius Landsbergis
Politics

Conservatives to openly pick mayoral candidates in key cities

The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives) decided at its council meeting on Saturday that the party would pick mayoral candidates in open elections in the country’s three largest cities of Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipeda prior to the 2019 elections to local governments. […]

Rūta Šepetys (A.Martinonytės nuotr.)
Culture

Lithuanian-American writer Sepetys receives British literary award

Ruta Sepetys, a US writer of Lithuanian decent, was presented on Monday with the Carnegie Medal, a British literary award that annually recognizes one outstanding new book for children or young adults, the Lithuanian Culture Institute said. […]

Artūras Skardžius
CORPORATE

A. Skardžius temporarily suspending his membership in the Social Democrat party

On Friday afternoon member of Seimas Artūras Skardžius announced he is temporarily suspending his membership in the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party. He chose to do so following a journalist investigation of the 15min portal, which […]