March 2018 - Page 3 of 17 - the Lithuania Tribune

Seimas to discuss resistance to hybrid threats from Russia

March 28, 2018 BNS 0

An international conference is held at the Lithuanian parliament on Wednesday to discuss the society’s resistance to hybrid threats from Russia. […]

Declaration between Lithuanian govt, Orlen stipulates modernization, jobs, PSO tariffs

March 28, 2018 BNS 0

The declaration signed between the Lithuanian government and the Polish oil concern Orlen on Tuesday envisages the Polish company’s investments in the Mažeikiai oil refinery and the same number of jobs, while the government should reconsider Public Service Obligation (PSO) tariffs for the company and examine the possibility of building a pipeline to Klaipeda. […]

Lithuania notifies Russia about suspicions against Snoras’ execs

March 28, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian prosecutors have notified their Russian colleagues about the suspicions brought against Raimondas Baranauskas and Vladimir Antonov, top executives and shareholders of the bankrupt bank Snoras hiding in Russia whom they intend to put on trial in absentia. […]

A Vilnius Winter Sonata Photo © Ludo Segers @ The LIthuania Tribune

Ludo Segers to feature Lithuania in photo exhibition in Brussels

March 28, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

On 5 April, an exhibition will open in Brussels with a selection of photos by Ludo Segers, a regular contributor of The Lithuania Tribune. The exhibition, entitled “A Place, A Time, A Reason?” will feature images photographed in Lithuania and during Ludo’s travels around the world.

Observers describe Ludo’s photography as a cross between narrative documentary and fine art, noting a high level of awareness that is required in photojournalism punctuated with magical moments captured in between assignments. Some of those exquisite instants will be on display in Gallery 74 in Brussels. […]

Seimas gives green light to appointing Bartkus as STT chief

March 27, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday gave a go-ahead to the appointment of Žydrūnas Bartkus, 42-year-old master of law, to head the Special Investigation Service (STT), the country’s main counter-corruption agency. […]

Lithuanian government signs cooperation declaration with Poland’s Orlen

March 27, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s government and Poland’s oil concern Orlen signed a cooperation declaration in Vilnius on Tuesday, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said. […]

Lithuania’s election chief survives no-confidence vote

March 27, 2018 BNS 0

Laura Matjošaitytė, chairwoman of Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission, is staying in the post after surviving an opposition-initiated no-confidence vote at the parliament on Tuesday. […]

EUR 2.9 mln seized in Lithuania in intl money laundering probe

March 27, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s law-enforcement have cracked a large-scale money laundering scheme and arrested 2.9 million euros transferred from a German company to a bank account in Lithuania. […]

Irena Šiaulienė, Juozas Bernatonis, Gediminas Kirkilas, Živilė Pinskuvienė

J. Bernatonis about G. Paluckas’ party: it would be shameful to call them Social Democrats

March 27, 2018 Media Briefing 0

A new party has appeared in Lithuania – politicians, who broke away from the Social Democrats, together with a number of former Labour Party members have founded the united Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour (LSDD) Party. […]

Russian ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov

Three Russian diplomats expelled: is Lithuania being modest?

March 27, 2018 Aidanas Praleika 0

Yesterday Lithuania expelled three Russian diplomats, or rather covert operatives working under the cover of diplomatic service. Last week’s statements by the president led to the belief that the number of expelled spies could have […]

Remigijus Šimašius, the mayor of Vilnius

A tool launched to facilitate the integration of foreign nationals relocating to Vilnius

March 27, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

In order to facilitate the transition of foreigners invited to live and work in Lithuania’s capital a new digital tool, which takes the form of a Relocation Guide, has been launched. Developed by Go Vilnius, the city’s official business and tourism development agency, the guide provides all the necessary information for successful and smooth relocation to Vilnius according to each person’s individual situation. […]

Amendment to allow Paksas to run for Lithuanian president passes 1st reading in Seimas

March 27, 2018 BNS 0

A draft constitutional amendment to allow Lithuania’s impeached former president, Rolandas Paksas, to run both in parliamentary and presidential elections passed the first reading in the Seimas on Tuesday. […]

Lithuania provides EUR 55,000 in humanitarian aid to Ukraine

March 27, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania has provided 55,000 euros in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. […]

March for Our Lives in Vilnius

March 27, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

Representatives of Vilnius’s American community, joined by local volunteers, held a “March for Our Lives” at Kudirkas Square on Saturday, March 24. The event was one of more than 820 such events held worldwide, inspired by the student activists from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Forida, where 17 students and teachers were shot dead on February 14, 2018, the organisers of the event wrote. […]

Reflections on Soviet medicine in exhibition 03 by artist Gabrielė Gervickaitė

March 27, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

Gabrielė Gervickaitė joins photography and illustration in her investigative exhibition 03 that opens at 6 PM on March 28 at the gallery Meno Niša. The artist looks back at the Soviet period, in which she was born and came of age, as well as investigates the power structures of today and how these were shaped by Soviet imageries. […]