All Saint’s Day is an important holiday celebrated in honour of known and unknown saints on November 1st. While the Vėlinės (All Soul’s Day) celebration to commemorate the deceased is held to be on November 2nd, in Lithuania the two are often celebrated together on November 1st with deceased relatives’ graves being visited. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis rejected on Wednesday criticism from President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s office over the pace of defense budget growth. […]
Lithuania rose two notches to its highest-ever 14th position in the World Bank‘s latest ranking of 190 economies on the ease of doing business, up from number 16 last year. […]
The Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday to submit a package of legislative amendments aimed at clarifying the legal regulation of martial law to the parliament for approval. […]
The Lithuanian government approved on Wednesday a plan for the evacuation of people in the event of an accident at the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant under construction in neighboring Belarus some 50 kilometers from Vilnius. […]
The Lithuanian government gave on Wednesday the go-ahead for the appointment of new ambassadors to Poland, Croatia and Austria. […]
Lithuania’s presidential office believes the government’s planned increase in the defense budget next year is too slow. […]
Darius Mockus, president and the sole shareholder of the MG Baltic business group, has been ordered by a Vilnius court to pay the state almost 2 million euros in taxes for the shares in Minvista, an investment company, he and his wife sold several years ago. […]
Lithuania’s central banker says he sees no clear signs of an upcoming new economic crisis but warns about slowing growth. […]
Tibet’s supporters are calling on Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė to pay attention to human rights violations in China during her visit to this country. […]
Rolandas Paksas‘ movement I call the Nation has started its first communications campaign – billboards presenting it have appeared in sixteen locations in Lithuania’s cities and on the Vilnius – Kaunas highway. Some 19 thousand […]
The Bank of Lithuania could have tightened supervision rules for the banking sector before the last crisis but failed to do so, Vitas Vasiliauskas, chairman of the Bank of Lithuania, says. […]
A new exposition will be unveiled at the Paneriai Memeorial on the outskirts of Vilnius on Wednesday and the results of the latest research in this area will be presented. […]
A public figure from Lithuania’s southern city of Marijampole has been banned from travelling to Russia for five years, the Lietuvos Rytas daily writes on Wednesday. […]
Around 200 people on Tuesday held a rally outside Lithuania’s parliament over children taken from families. […]
The Lithuanian military cannot guard the state properly without public support. This is well understood by states antagonistic to Lithuania, which try to weaken our state by sowing conflict and discord between various societal groups in Lithuania and by diminishing the importance of national defense. Despite the efforts by antagonistic states, the Lithuanian ethnic communities continue to play an important role in the modern effort to strengthen state security, just as they did in the historical effort to secure Lithuanian independence. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence is inviting foreign companies to participate in tenders on the construction of three new military bases in Vilnius and Šilalė Districts and Siauliai. […]
Politicians often act like lordlings, they care not that the kingdom is actually a democracy. This is the view of philosopher, Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science (VU TSPMI) professor Alvydas Jokubaitis. […]
Over 1,000 Poles may have been given fake employment contracts in Lithuania to have their healthcare costs reimbursed by the Lithuanian Compulsory Health Insurance Fund, the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) said on Tuesday. […]
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