Edmundas Sakalauskas, the new head of Lithuania’s Chief Official Ethics Commission, says the creation of a register of private interests and ensuring transparent lobbyism are among his main priorities. […]
The defendants in the January 13, 1991 case cannot be held accountable for the Jan. 13 events as they followed the orders of their commanders and knew nothing about Lithuania’s history, their lawyers say. […]
Lithuania will support projects and produce documentaries to introduce to the world the Righteous Among the Nations from Lithuania, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says, adding that she discussed such possibilities with the German ambassador to Lithuania. […]
Three years ago, instead of suspending or discarding the Iranian nuclear programme altogether, the major European and global countries, together with the then US President, Barack Obama, frivolously entered into an agreement with Iran on […]
Gas prices for Lithuanian residents should not change as of July. The country’s National Commission for Energy Control and Prices is expected to decide on Thursday on the prices of gas supplied by Lietuvos Dujų Tiekimas. […]
Lithuanian customs officials last weekend seized 500,000 packs of contraband cigarettes at the border with Belarus, the Customs Criminal Service said on Tuesday. […]
The City Council of Kaunas on Tuesday named BC Žalgiris Kaunas head coach Šarūnas Jasikevičius an honorary citizen of Lithuania’s second-biggest city. […]
Russian oligarch-turned-dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky says that a fall of Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s regime is possible at any time. […]
Art lovers and professionals should mark June 7-10 on their calendars as ArtVilnius’18, an event drawing in over 22,000 visitors each year, invites them to the ninth edition of one of Eastern Europe’s biggest contemporary art fairs. This year the event, hosted at Litexpo exhibition space in Vilnius, is putting together a programme to mark the centenary of Lithuania’s independence restoration and focusing on the vibrant art scene of the Baltic States, a press release from ArtVilnius states. […]
A campaign is kicking off on Tuesday to invite 4 million Lithuanians around the globe to sign the national anthem on State Day, July 6. […]
Lithuania is among the EU‘s leaders in terms of the estimated time needed to resolve civil and commercial cases at first-instance courts and ranks first by the length of proceedings in administrative cases at first-instance courts, according to the 2018 EU Justice Scoreboard published by the European Commission on Monday. […]
The opposition Lithuanian Liberal Movement continues to search for arguments to refute information in a State Security Department (VSD) report that the party was controlled by MG Baltic, one of the country’s largest business groups. […]
Some employees of the Vilnius district local authority have been caught watching pornography at work, the Delfi.lt news website reported on Monday. […]
Manfred Weber, leader of the European Parliament‘s largest political group, says that Lithuania should choose Europe amid recent tensions between the European Union and the United States. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defense and the Lithuanian Labor Exchange have created a special database, the Retired Soldiers’ Bank, to provide an opportunity for employers to hire retired troops. […]
The sentences proposed by Lithuanian prosecutors for those on trial in absentia in the January 13, 1991 case are fair, Robertas Povilaitis, who lost his father during the bloody events, says. […]
The opposition Social Democratic Party of Lithuania is calling for the ratification of the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention), the party’s resolution, adopted on Saturday, states. […]
Jews, just as any nation are not monolithic. Jews in Lithuania have a history of some 700 years and many things have occurred during it, both good and bad and the repercussions of the Holocaust […]
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