Polish border
Foreign affairs

Lithuania, Poland complete legal establishment of mutual border

Lithuania and Poland took one of the last steps on Saturday to finalize the legal process regarding Lithuania-Poland state border. […]

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Opinion

Let’s Talk About Dying

The St Francis Cancer Care Centre in Klaipėda has now been open for four years and has become well known throughout the country. The annual Run for Hope is now in its tenth year and attracts 10,000 participants. And now there are another twenty events organised to raise money for the Cancer Centre, where all the treatments and therapies to patients are given free of charge. It is not a hospital and no medical procedures are offered. But it does fulfil a vital need and has become a preferred place of care for those who use its services. Now it’s time to build a new hospice in Klaipėda. […]

Laurynas Kasčiūnas
Defence

Conservative MP proposes tax deduction for riflemen, volunteers buying guns

Lithuania’s conservative MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas has proposed a tax deduction for riflemen and volunteer troops purchasing semi-automatic weapons. […]

Ieva Januškevičiūtė at the slalom at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
Sports

Ieva Januškevičiūtė: I had to do my job

23-year-old alpine skier Ieva Januškevičiūtė scored a solid 43rd result in her second Olympic slalom appearance. […]

Head of the gallery Jurgita Juospaitytė-Bitinienė
Culture

Director of Rooster Gallery: Interest in art is on the rise in Lithuania

The Rooster Gallery, the first mobile gallery that was established in Lithuania ten years ago, started its activity with minimum resources, without a concrete exhibition space, and had to look for a new space each time when it held an exhibition. Today, the gallery can take pride in its significant achievements both on the Lithuanian and international art scene. Head of the gallery Jurgita Juospaitytė-Bitinienė currently works with the most interesting Lithuanian painters of the young generation whose work is already known in the international context. […]

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Energy

Baltic states ask EU to include power network synchronization in next budget

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Thursday urged the leaders of the European Union (EU) to envisage funds in the community’s new budget for synchronization of the Baltic electricity networks with Western Europe. […]