Society
Migration Department pledges online registration for applicants for resident permits
Lithuania’s Migration Department plans to introduce early online registration for temporary residence permits instead of the current live queue. […]
Month: February 2018
Foreign affairs
Ex-formin rejects suspicions over CIA prison outside Vilnius
Antanas Valionis, a former Lithuanian foreign minister, has rejected suspicions that the US Central Intelligence operated a secret prison for terror suspects in Lithuania between 2005 and 2006. […]
CORPORATE
Kęstutis Girnius. What sort of military do we need?
On the eve of the independence commemoration, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis stated that the cabinet is prepared to coordinate the various parties’ positions on defence questions in an effort to sign a long-term document over […]
Society
Temperatures in Lithuania to drop to below -20C this week
Temperatures are forecast to drop to as low as 24 degrees Celsius below zero in some places in Lithuania at the end of this week. […]
Society
Soviet, Nazi symbols painted on NKVD monument in southern Lithuania
Police have launched a pre-trial investigation to find out who painted Soviet and Nazi symbols on a monument to NKVD agents in a village close to Marijampolė, the administrative centre of south-western Lithuania. […]
Economy
Poland’s Itaka set to launch operations in Lithuania, fly passengers to Turkey, Greece
Itaka Holdings, Poland’s biggest holiday tour operator, is set to launch operations in Lithuania after last year’s failed attempt to acquire Novaturas, a major local tour operator, with plans to run flights from Vilnius to Turkey and Greece. […]
History
Search for traces of French POW camp in Lithuania’s Curonian Spit to be launched – daily
The French government has decided to fund, through its embassy to Lithuania, exploratory research in the Curonian Spit’s sand dunes that possibly housed a camp for French prisoners of war in the late 19th century, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Tuesday. […]
Opinion
Refusals in extension of a residence permit in Lithuania. Causes and consequences.
Since 2017, amendments to the law of the Republic of Lithuania “On the Legal Status of Aliens” have come into force. Despite the fact that new immigration rules have established preferential terms for technological start-ups that are at an early stage of their development with a scalable and innovative product or business model, now it is more difficult to obtain a residence permit based on legal activity in Lithuania than before. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania broke its promise to Latvia over LNG terminal – former ambassador (Updated)
Lithuania in the late 2000s promised Latvia to support its efforts to build a liquefied natural gas terminal near Riga, but broke that promise, a former diplomat says. […]
Society
Lithuanian court sentences 3 people for stealing money from Norwegian cos via malware
A Lithuanian court on Monday found three people guilty of stealing 246,000 euros from Norwegian companies by infecting their computers with malware. […]
Energy
Politics
Klaipėdos Nafta CFO Marius Pulkauninkas to head Lithuania’s State Forestry Enterprise
Marius Pulkauninkas, currently chief financial officer at Lithuania’s state-controlled energy terminals operator Klaipėdos Nafta (Klaipeda Oil), is to be appointed chief executive officer of Valstybiniu Miškų Urėdija (State Forestry Enterprise). […]
Foreign affairs
Seimas speaker urges Latvia to launch sea border treaty ratification
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, on Monday urged Latvia to launch the ratification of its maritime border treaty with Lithuania. […]
Society
Politics
MPs collect signatures for no-confidence vote in academic ethics guard
Lithuanian parliamentarians have collected signatures in support of discussing no-confidence in academic ethics controller Vigilijus Sadauskas faced with accusations of anti-Semitism. […]
Foreign affairs
Breakthrough in Lithuania-Poland ties expected after Duda’s visit
Local Poles and analysts expect a breakthrough in relations between Vilnius and Warsaw after Polish President Andrzej Duda‘s three-day visit to Lithuania last week. […]
CORPORATE
Rima Urbonaitė. The struggle for freedom has not ended yet
We have commemorated the centenary. A centenary worthy of pride, how after half a century of devastation the nation not only survived, but also regained its freedom and chose the path of democracy, even with […]
CORPORATE
Romas Sadauskas-Kvietkevičius. The age of a confident Lithuania begins after the centenary celebrations
I particularly enjoy the day after the celebration when the bustling crowds have dispersed, flags that have yet to be taken off continue to fly in the wind, the homeless, sparrows and cats take their […]
Sports
Defence
NATO fighter-jets scrambled from Lithuania twice last week over Russian warplanes
NATO fighter-jets conducting the air-policing mission in the Baltic states were last week scrambled twice to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea. […]