The European Court of Human Rights is to deliver on Tuesday its judgment in a case regarding liability for false statements published in a book by the late writer Vytautas Petkevičius about the father of Lithuania’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
Aušra Mažonė’s ‘s first book The Unknown Frontline – 12 true stories of soldier’s wives collected around the globe, (in Lithuanian ”Nežinios fronto linijos -12 tikrų istorijų apie karių moteris iš viso pasaulio”) was launched last weekend at the Vilnius book fair. […]
Cinema attendance and advertising volumes in Lithuania grew last year compared with 2016, with the total number of commercials screened at the country’s movie theaters up by 34.2 percent to 581,000 commercials, the business daily Verslo Žinios reported on Tuesday, citing data from the market research company Kantar TNS. […]
An exhibition of portraits by Litvak painter Rafael Chwoles is opening at the Tolerance Centre of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum on Tuesday. […]
The head of Vilnius Women’s House, a non-governmental organization running a crisis centre for women, has called on the Lithuanian parliament to ratify the so-called Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, saying that it would help fight sexual harassment. […]
Flu and cold cases in Lithuania have been on the decline for the past two weeks, the Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS said on Monday. […]
Lawmakers of the opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats have collected enough signatures for launching a parliamentary inquiry into land ownership and acquisition processes in Lithuania. […]
Defying a one-year suspension imposed by the Lithuanian media watchdog on RTR Planeta, a part of cable TV operators in the country continue to air a different version of the the Russian-language channel. […]
The Lithuanian Migration Department in Vilnius has on Monday eliminated live queues for foreigners to come and fill out applications for national visas without prior registration. […]
The top executive of the Lithuanian publishing house that translated a book by Russian journalist Galina Sapozhnikova will stand charges for public approval of and denial of Soviet crimes. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday received letters of credence from China’s new Ambassador Shen Zhifei. […]
Having grown rapidly in 2017, export flows to Russia will continue to rise this year, however they will likely not yet reach the same level as in 2013. The Russian market is making up an […]
Municipalities of the Vilnius city and the Švenčionys district intend to purchase civil protection instruments to ensure safety of the populations in case of a possible accident in the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant, which is just across the state border in Belarus. […]
The record-low temperatures of this winter claimed three lives in Vilnius over the past three days. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is going to Warsaw later this week to deliver a speech at the Polish parliament and meet with its leaders. […]
The number of Lithuanians expecting the next year to be better than the previous one has decline over the past year, with the indicator dropping to the lowest level since 2011, shows the latest Eurobarometer survey. […]
Immigration numbers are setting new records in Lithuania, with the major wave of emigration slightly declining, shows data provided to BNS by Statistics Lithuania. […]
Lietuvos Geležinkeliai received only five cargo trains from China last year despite expecting several tens. A communications specialist from the company, Domas Jurevičius told LRT.lt that this occurred because it takes a great deal of […]
A large enthusiast and captivated audience came out on a very cold Saturday afternoon to hear former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt speak at the annual Vilnius Book Fair. Verhofstadt is currently fraction leader of the Liberal Group in the European parliament. However, on Saturday his main message were his ideas for European reform and to make the EU stronger, more efficient, and to avoid more Brexit-like defections of the world’s largest and most powerful trading block. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis continue topping the list of Lithuania’s most popular politicians, shows a Vilmorus poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
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