Politics
Seimas removes revocation of Pūkas’ MP mandate from agenda
The Lithuanian parliament’s meeting of elders decided to remove the bid to revoke the mandate of MP Kęstutis Pūkas from the plenary agenda. […]
Year: 2018
CORPORATE
KGB files: some remain that will only be opened under special circumstances
Despite the uproar that arose over Saulius Sondeckis, Donatas Banionis and Vincentas Sladkevičius‘ potential collaboration with the KGB, it would appear that the impact of collaboration with Soviet intelligence accusations have weakened with the public. […]
Politics
Lithuanian ministries to draft action plan on funding of Vilnius region
Lithuania’s ministers of interior affairs, education and culture decided on Thursday to work out an action plan of all three ministries on financing of the Vilnius region. […]
Defence
US bombers to train in Lithuania
A joint exercise of the Lithuanian and United States Air Forces is scheduled to take place in Kazlų Rūda later this week, involving US bombers, the US Embassy in Vilnius said on Thursday. […]
Society
Lithuania’s population declines by 38,000 in 2017
Lithuania’s resident population last year declined by 37,800 to 2.810 million, due mostly to emigration and to the number of deaths exceeding that of births, the country’s statistics office said. […]
Society
Lithuanian Railways to launch Vilnius–Daugavpils weekend train service
Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) in launching on Saturday, Jan. 13, a weekend train service between Vilnius and Latvia’s second-biggest city of Daugavpils. […]
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Belarussians and Ukrainians welcome in Lithuanian farms
Lithuanian farmers, same as Latvian ones, would like to employ Ukrainians and Belarussians due to the lack of labour willing to work for a minimum wage. Head of the Seimas Rural Affairs Committee, “Farmer” Andriejus […]
Society
European Humanities University leadership seeks to settle University status in Lithuania
On January 11 the General Assembly of Part-Owners (GAPO) and the Governing Board (GB) of the European Humanities University (EHU) submitted an official proposal to the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania for a mutually acceptable roadmap agreement that will allow EHU to continue operations in Vilnius. […]
CORPORATE
Foreign Policy and Michael Carpenter in detail about the Marshal Plan for Ukraine
As part of its article dedicated to the Marshal Plan for Ukraine, which was initiated by us, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail cites an article by Michael Carpenter, Adviser to former US Vice President Joe Biden, where he praises our initiative. I was thus impelled to get a hold of the entire article by Carpenter. The article was published in the final issue of Foreign Policy, one of the most influential magazines worldwide and one that is most widely read by foreign policy experts. […]
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G. Kirkilas: we must make good use of the Lithuanian-Polish relations‘ renaissance
A new prime minister was appointed in Poland and the country’s ministerial cabinet was reshuffled. International policy commenters in Europe predict more moderate Polish policy. How will Polish foreign policy change and what influence could […]
Defence
Politics
Lithuanian PM suggests not tearing alcohol ads out of foreign magazines
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis suggests that Lithuanian press distributors should not tear alcohol ads out of foreign magazines sold in the country. […]
Politics
PM sees Seimas probe into public broadcaster LRT as ‘last resort’
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that a proposed parliamentary investigation into Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) would be a measure of last resort, adding that the public broadcaster’s financial and economic activities should be probed by the appropriate authorities. […]
Sports
Sabonis’ sons Domantas and Tautvydas on Lithuania’s 2018 military draft lists
Basketball players Domantas Sabonis and Tautvydas Sabonis, the sons of Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuania’s basketball legend who now serves as president of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, or LKF, are on this year’s military conscription lists published on Wednesday, the federation confirmed. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania hosts traditional Snow Meeting of politicians, experts
Security policy experts are gathering in Lithuania on Thursday for an annual Snow Meeting to discuss key challenges faced by the transatlantic community and responses to these challenges. […]
Politics
Lithuanian government approves state enterprises’ reorganization plan
The Lithuanian government approved on Wednesday a plan for reorganizing companies that hold the status of state enterprises. […]
CORPORATE
Imantas Melianas. Does Lithuania need its own Dodon?
From the very start when Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia in 1999 and his supporting OCG (organised criminal group) formed out of KGB agents and oligarchs, this state and its policies became a […]
Politics
Lithuanian president sees removed foreign magazine pages with alcohol ads as disgrace
Enforcement of the full ban on alcohol advertisement has put Lithuania in disgrace over the fact that companies distributing foreign publications are forced to tear out pages containing such ads or hide it in other ways, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Society
Education minister suggests terminating Education University’s studies in July
Lithuania’s Education and Science Ministry says that the studies of the University of Education Sciences (LEU) should be terminated in July, while students of the university should continue their education at the Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) after restructuring. […]
Foreign affairs
Foreign minister: indicators of non-political ties with Russia positive
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that non-political ties with Russia are maintained and the necessary tasks are in progress, while political meetings make no sense at the moment. […]