Favourable conditions for the development of financial technologies (FinTech) in Lithuania have already attracted numerous domestic and foreign companies. Upon implementation of planned initiatives for fostering FinTech development, the sector is likely to attract more investment and create more jobs, while consumers may be offered a wider range of financial services. […]
NATO fighter-jets serving in the Baltic air-policing mission were last week scrambled from Lithuania for the first time in 2018 over Russian warplanes flying in the international airspace above the Baltic Sea. […]
The Defense Resource Agency under the Lithuanian Defense Ministry and the Armed Forces will this year make purchases for approximately 265 million euros, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė remains the most favored politician in the country, followed by Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis, shows a Vilmorus poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
Ratings of Lithuania’s political parties remain stable, with the first place taken by the opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives), followed by the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and the Order and Justice party just ahead of the Social Democrats, shows a Vilmorus poll published in the Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party will propose a candidate for the 2019 presidential elections, the party’s council decided at its meeting on Saturday. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has congratulated her Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto on re-election for the second term in office on Sunday. […]
On 13 January 1991, 27 years ago, Lithuania stood up for freedom. Not only for its own. We defended the European future. But for the victory there and then, Lithuania and Europe would be very […]
The noble estate enjoyed the most important position in the social hierarchy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The nobility, however, was far from homogenous. It consisted of aristocrats, (the magnates), as well as of middling and petty nobles who owned little or no land at all respectively. The importance and financial might of noble families and even particular individuals was constantly fluctuating. Many families went through a process of ascent and subsequent slide down or even oblivion. A considerable number of the noblemen were utterly poor. They sometimes could hardly afford their daily meals yet they still enjoyed all the privileges of the estate. Some of them – mostly vagabonds – would eventually cross the line and lose their symbols of the nobility. They would live on accidental income, sometimes illegal, and would very often end up in prisons or on the scaffold. Surviving interrogation documents reveal the paths that led them into the world of crime. What kind of life was it? […]
So far, the German government repeatedly emerged as one of the main proponents for the extension of sanctions imposed on Russia. However, since no end of Moscow’s support for the separatists in Eastern Ukraine seems […]
Two young political party leaders – the Conservatives’ Gabrielius Landsbergis and LSDP’s Gintautas Paluckas – two weeks ago ruined signing the traditional parliamentary political party agreement on foreign, security and defence policy for 2018-2020, which […]
A square in Maišiagala, a small town close to the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, has been named after Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash in 2010. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday came to Poland’s defense in the neighboring country’s row with the European Union, saying that decisions in the bloc cannot be forced upon member states. […]
Former Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) chair and former Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is sceptical of talks about S. Skvernelis choosing to not participate in the presidential elections. “It is not only gut feeling, but […]
A daring ad promoting Vilnius as “the G-spot of Europe” has gone viral in recent days and may become a successful calling card of the Lithuanian capital abroad. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is in Davos for the World Economic Forum, says that Russia will remain aggressive and destabilizing after the upcoming presidential election in the country. […]
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