Politics
Kaunas Mayor Matijošaitis hits pedestrian in car accident
Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis hit and injured a pedestrian while driving his car on Tuesday morning. […]
Month: January 2018
Politics
PM to visit Georgia-South Ossetia boundary line
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Tuesday is to travel to the administrative boundary line between Georgia and South Ossetia. […]
Economy
Society
Chiune Sugihara’s legacy-inspired cultural diplomacy
Chiune Sugihara’s legacy continues to live on, reverberating in new culturally significant and socially beneficial ways. […]
History
The yard of a medieval artisan
In the 13th and 14th century, artisans and merchants used to build their homes in the safe neighbourhood of the main castle mounds. More numerous communities of artisans represented a new object in the social landscape because they were not typical in the earlier society of husbandmen and cattle raisers. Quarters inhabited by artisans and their families stretched next to the main political and administrative centres – the castles where dukes resided together with the people constituting their closest environment. Artisans worked to meet the demands of the ducal court. Supposedly, they would sell part of their products or exchange them for daily bread. […]
CORPORATE
The “Russian Factor” in Germany’s policy towards the Eastern Partnership
In contrast to many of its European neighbours, Germany maintained relatively close relations with Russia for a long time. Some observers even spoke of a German “Russia first” policy during the term of Chancellor Gerhard […]
CORPORATE
Egidijus Vareikis, So, what about the foreign policy?
Anecdotal folk art says that a real man will never catch a fool in three areas: sex, sport and foreign policy. Today, foreign policy in our country is often spoken by everyone who is not […]
CORPORATE
Ž. Pavilionis. About Vovochka the neighbour and the choice: the West or the Lithuanian Schroederism?
Many of us have probably encountered or at least have heard of an undisciplined next-door-neighbour with a fondness for drinking. Let us call him Vovochka (the Russian equivalent of “Little Johnny”, a diminutive form of […]
Opinion
L. Andrikienė, European Parliament has laid foundations for breakthrough in Eastern Partnership
Published in the newsletter of EU-STRAT (http://eu-strat.eu), EU-STRAT is an international research project that studies the relationship between the European Union and the countries in the European Eastern neighborhood. It has been expected in the […]
CORPORATE
Lithuania and Europe: the European Union should be called European Commonwealth
With the evolution of changing identity and history’s repeating challenges in mind, let’s take a sober look at Lithuania’s position in Europe. Lithuania is an independent state the citizens of which constitute a political nation. […]
Society
Robot to marry same-sex couples outside Government building on Valentine’s Day
Couples, including gays and lesbians, will be “married” by a humanoid robot in a mock ceremony planned to be staged outside the Lithuanian government’s building in Vilnius on St. Valentine’s Day. […]
Economy
Ignalina N-plant auction case goes to court
A criminal case in which former top executives of Lithuania’s Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) are suspected of abuse of office in organizing an auction of the plant’s assets worth 1.5 million euros is going to court. […]
Economy
FinTech development in Lithuania gathering pace
Favourable conditions for the development of financial technologies (FinTech) in Lithuania have already attracted numerous domestic and foreign companies. Upon implementation of planned initiatives for fostering FinTech development, the sector is likely to attract more investment and create more jobs, while consumers may be offered a wider range of financial services. […]
Defence
NATO jets scrambled for 1st time from Lithuania over Russian warplane
NATO fighter-jets serving in the Baltic air-policing mission were last week scrambled from Lithuania for the first time in 2018 over Russian warplanes flying in the international airspace above the Baltic Sea. […]
Defence
Lithuania’s army projects acquisitions for EUR 265 mln in 2018
The Defense Resource Agency under the Lithuanian Defense Ministry and the Armed Forces will this year make purchases for approximately 265 million euros, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]
Culture
Politics
Grybauskaitė, Matijošaitis, Skvernelis top Lithuania’s poll of most popular politicians
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė remains the most favored politician in the country, followed by Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis, shows a Vilmorus poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
Politics
Conservatives ratings up, Farmers stable – poll
Ratings of Lithuania’s political parties remain stable, with the first place taken by the opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives), followed by the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and the Order and Justice party just ahead of the Social Democrats, shows a Vilmorus poll published in the Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
Politics
SocDems to propose candidate for president, Paluckas not to run for EP
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party will propose a candidate for the 2019 presidential elections, the party’s council decided at its meeting on Saturday. […]
Society