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How to make the deal of the deals with Russia? After dinner with E. Lucas

January 15, 2018 Mikko Waltari 0

Edward Lucas, the former senior editor of the Economist, visited Vilnius on January 10th — once again, should we say. He lived in Lithuania in the Nineties and is such a frequent commentator and visitor in Lithuania that he even speaks the language a bit. His work has been revolving around Russia for so long that he has become a synonym for Russophobia, an accusation he is sharing with the three Baltic States. […]

The General Data Protection Regulation seminar

EU’s new data protection regulation: more rights for individuals, colossal challenges for businesses

January 15, 2018 Ludo Segers and Justinas Suliokas 0

The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, may sound like one more arcane package of rules coming from Brussels, but saying it’s “a big deal” does not even begin to cover it. The directive will affect every company inside the EU, as well as those outside the EU, doing business with EU citizens when it comes into effect on 25 May. Preparing for it requires quite extensive legal and IT resources. Aurelija Rutkauskaitė, attorney at the legal firm Triniti, and Stein Ove Sektnan, managing director at customer relations management firm SuperOffice, acquainted the attendees of the monthly European Business Network business breakfast with the challenges of meeting the GDPR and offered tips how to deal with them. […]

Dissident awarded Lithuanian Freedom Prize

January 15, 2018 BNS 0

Nijolė Sadūnaitė, 79-year-old nun, dissident and Soviet-era political prisoner, was awarded the Freedom Prize on the Day of Freedom Defenders at a solemn ceremony at the parliament on Saturday. […]

Vilnius mayor wants square next to Russian Embassy named after Russian democracy

January 15, 2018 BNS 0

Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has proposed naming a square next to the Russian Embassy after Russian democracy. […]

Japan’s PM honours WWII diplomat to who rescued Jews in Lithuania

January 15, 2018 BNS 0

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday went to Lithuania’s second city Kaunas on Sunday to pay tribute to the memory of World War II-era diplomat Chiune Sugihara who rescued Jews from the Holocaust. […]

Japanese PM to visit Lithuania

January 15, 2018 BNS 0

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is coming to Lithuania to discuss bilateral issues and the North Korea situation with President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Saturday and to pay tribute to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War Two, in Kaunas on Sunday. […]

Seimas passes bill to vet large deals by strategic companies

January 15, 2018 BNS 0

A special government commission in Lithuania will be able to vet state-owned and privately-owned strategic enterprises’ deals exceeding 10 percent of their annual revenue. […]

Lithuania bans entry to 49 Russians under ‘Magnitsky Act’

January 15, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas on Friday banned 49 Russian nationals accused of human rights violations and money laundering from entering the country. […]

Virginijus Valentinavičius. LRT, camouflage rhetoric and the rough truth

January 12, 2018 Virginijus Valentinavicius 0

There wouldn’t even have been a discussion over the LRT’s finances if the LRT had voluntarily handed over all the numbers requested by the Lithuanian parliament and would this way have forestalled the question’s deliberations. […]

Skvernelis’ dangerous game: we risk to bury the opportunity granted to Lithuania by Trump and Putin

January 12, 2018 Vaidas Saldziunas 0

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ statements that Lithuania does not have any contacts with Russia and should renew them, for example through the work of the intergovernmental commission, continues to be surprising. Politicians and experts warn […]

Vygaudas Ušackas: Foreign policy in 2018: from threat of war to Lithuania’s historic skills

January 12, 2018 Vygaudas Usackas 0

In the workplaces of the mighty strategies which more so or less so will undoubtedly impact Lithuania are being finalised. Some are already foreseeable and in some places, we must take control of the risks […]

Over 150 witnesses questioned in Lithuania’s Jan. 13 coup case – prosecutors

January 12, 2018 BNS 0

More than 150 witnesses have been interviewed in the January 13 attempted coup case in the Vilnius court, the Prosecutor General’s Office said. […]

Pūkas gives up MP mandate

January 12, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian MP Kęstutis Pūkas who has recently been charged with sexual harassment gave up his MP mandate on Friday after the start of parliamentary discussion to revoke his mandate. […]

Baltic states should reopen debates of joint weaponry acquisitions – Lithuanian foreign minister

January 12, 2018 BNS 0

The three Baltic states should reopen the discussions of purchasing weaponry together, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]

Russian officers discover Lithuanian paraglider in Baltic Sea

January 12, 2018 BNS 0

The Friday’s search for the missing paraglider pilot around the Lithuanian seaside resort of Nida resulted in discovery of the paraglider in the Baltic Sea by officers of the Russian Kaliningrad region. […]

Lithuania as unsafe as never before – Landsbergis

January 12, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis says that the current security situation in the country is worse than back when Lithuania was fighting for independence 27 years ago. […]

PM calls for law-enforcement probe of national broadcaster’s finances

January 12, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s law-enforcement should conduct a check of the use of state funds by the national broadcaster LRT, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]

Danish PM coming to Lithuania next week

January 12, 2018 BNS 0

Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen is coming to Lithuania next Monday. […]

Lithuania’s government to revise accumulation of food reserves

January 12, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s government intends to revise the scheme of accumulating food reserves for cases of war or other emergencies. Some MPs believe that Lithuania, as a member of the European Union, is still accumulating the reserve by the principles of the Soviet Union, suggesting to change the scheme to fit NATO standards. […]

Lithuanian rescuers searching for missing paraglider pilot bound for Nida

January 12, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian search-and-rescue services are looking for a paraglider pilot who went missing on his way from Vilnius to the seaside resort of Nida, Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation) state-owned air navigation service provider said on Friday morning. […]