A Seimas term marked by scandals, disputes, intrigue and dubious decisions has reached its halfway point. The majority boasts of its achievements and pledge to continue levelling mountains. Meanwhile, the opposition assures they have never […]
Lithuania’s government plans to collect around 200 million euros in revenue from the shadow economy next year, the finance minister says. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has been invited to the next year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, which will take place in January. […]
Lithuanian charter airline Small Planet Airlines’ decision to restructure its main company in Lithuania should not affect tourists’ plans, the country’s Tourism Department says as tour operators working with this air company have alternatives. […]
Lithuanian border guards detained a UK citizen late on Tuesday, illegally taking an Iraqi family of four, who had asked for asylum in Lithuania, to Poland. […]
Prosecutors have to present the final conclusions over the European Court of Human Rights‘ accusations that there was a secret American prison in Lithuania more than ten years ago, Darius Jauniškis, head of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD), says. […]
Lithuania’s Port of Klaipėda has put ship traffic restrictions in place due to strong winds, its spokeswoman Dovilė Ringis said. […]
Password fishing or phishing, for short, is one of the most widespread tools cyber-criminals use to steal money. As bait, phishers send their targets emails that allow to extract personal data from those who open them. Cybersecurity experts note that such tactics are used against both individual citizens and against companies. Below, the Director of the National Center for Cybersecurity Rytis Rainys explains, how to recognize the potential threats and how not to become another fish for the fraudsters. […]
“We love the Patriarch and the Patriarchate, we respect it. But we should emphasize that we love the Church and our country more than all”. This very recent holy statement of Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos, after the cancellation of the two leaders’ meeting in the Greek capital, reflects the new “cold war” between the two main ecclesiastical poles of the Hellenic Orthodoxy – the autocephalous Church of Greece and the ecumenical Fanar. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius is attending the Warsaw Security Forum. […]
Lithuania’s opposition, unhappy with Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ responses, wants the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense to investigate the story of the deleted government meeting recording. […]
Lithuanian customs officers have detained a Belarusian citizen who tried to bring contraband goods into the country in a car with diplomatic car plates. […]
Incorrectly-packaged morphine appeared on the shelves of Lithuanian pharmacies last summer after a printing house mislabeled boxes, the Lithuanian State Medicines Control Agency (VVKT) said on Tuesday. […]
Tbilisi will continue to seek integration into the West regardless of who wins next Sunday’s presidential election, Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]
International networking meetings realized in the frames of Cross-Baltic Upgrade2018! initiative in Lithuania, Vilnius 26-27 September and Riga, Latvia 1 October engaged in active dialogue leading figures of art and society from Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Estonia, Finland, Poland and Belarus. Promoting cultural diversity as well as European cultural heritage provoked multifaceted discussions among the participants, representing writers, journalists, directors of theatres and museums as well as politicians and ambassadors, a press release from Creative Association for Arts and Culture DROM states. […]
This summer, the ride-sharing company “Yandex. Taxi” started its activity in Lithuania and immediately caused a stir in the Lithuanian society. The National Cyber Security Center even issued a public recommendation to avoid using this app, as the leaked data of Lithuanian residents might constitute a threat to national security. Other specialists draw attention to the fact that such cyberattacks are increasingly common, and cyber criminals use mobile apps for non-political goals too. Hackers use acquired data to clean electronic banking accounts, to blackmail, or to use the hacked devices as launchpads for future attacks. For these reasons, it is crucial to know how to prevent your phone and your data from falling into hackers’ hands. […]
Lithuania’s ruling bloc on Tuesday mustered enough votes to reject an opposition-initiated resolution accusing Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis of restricting the freedom of speech after his office deleted the audio recording of a Cabinet meeting that discussed free access to registry data for the media. […]
Diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas and MP Ingrida Šimonytė, who are vying with each other for the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) nomination to run in next year’s presidential election, differ in their attitude toward family, with the former tying it to marriage and the latter calling for not ignoring reality. […]
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