Society
Lithuania’s FNTT finds illegal Ukrainian employee at Rimi supermarket
Lithuania’s Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) has identified a Ukrainian citizen illegally working at a supermarket in Vilnius. […]
Year: 2018
CORPORATE
Changes in the presidential candidate ratings – one of the top three drops down
The first clearer changes in the list of potential presidents have occurred with potential candidates starting to declare their intentions. Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis has dropped out of the top three. According to a poll […]
Politics
Vilnius mayor pledges wage “floor” for teachers, revive station area
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius, seeking re-election for a second term, has pledged to introduce a so-called wage “floor” for teachers and revive the central bus and railways station and Naujininkai areas of the Lithuanian capital. […]
Energy
Brussels preparing for talks with Russia on Baltic power systems
The European Commission is getting ready to start consultations with Russia over the switching of the Baltic states’ power networks off the post-Soviet system and their synchronization with that of western Europe. […]
Foreign affairs
Four more refugees to be transferred to Lithuania from Turkey
Lithuania will have to accept another four refugees, implementing the international agreement, the public radio has announced. […]
Politics
Society
Woman demands EUR 150,000 from Lithuanian hospital for sterilization without her knowledge
A woman is demanding a compensation of 150,000 euros from a hospital in Lithuania’s southern city of Lazdijai for being sterilized there without her knowledge 15 years ago. […]
Politics
Nausėda, Skvernelis, Šimonytė top presidential candidate rating in Lithuania – survey
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has come in second in a rating of potential candidates for next year’s presidential election, and economist Gitanas Nausėda rating’s keeps going up, a new survey has revealed. […]
Foreign affairs
Putin-linked oligarch’s plane lands in Vilnius
A plane belonging to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch having close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, landed in Vilnius on Thursday, the 15min.lt news website reports. […]
Society
Politics
Lithuania’s political corruption trial adjourned after new defense lawyer is brought in
The Vilnius Regional Court decided on Friday to adjourn the proceedings in a major political corruption case involving MG Baltic, one of Lithuania’s largest business groups, to give time to a new defense lawyer of Šarūnas Gustainis, a defendant, to read the case-file. […]
Politics
M. Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė on the Seimas Commission investigation: the conclusions to a certain extent are true, but the aspirations of parliamentarians are not related to transparency
The conclusions of the Seimas Commission scrutiny of the LRT activities are to a certain extent true, but the proposals on how to change the LRT management structure have nothing to do with the conclusions, says the LRT Director General Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė. Professor of Vilnius University Andrius Vaišnys maintains on the LRT RADIO – the conflict could easily be resolved in the discussion, lrt.lt writes. […]
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Conservatives wary of Ušackas: what is the politician seeking?
With potential Conservatives presidential candidate Vygaudas Ušackas declaring that the parties primaries could become a “closed party”, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat (TS-LKD) veterans Irena Degutienė and Rasa Juknevičienė do not conceal their outrage […]
Politics
Vilnius Mayor Šimašius to run for re-election as public committee’s candidate
Members of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement‘s Vilnius branch have decided to nominated Remigijus Šimašius, the capital’s current mayor, as their candidate in next year’s mayoral election, giving him the mandate to form a public election committee. […]
Society
Vilnius court closes 1991 crackdown case, to issue ruling in February
A Vilnius court on Friday completed hearings in a mass trial related to the 1991 Soviet crackdown on protesters in the Lithuanian capital, with the ruling to be issued next February. […]
Economy
Varle.lt’s cryptocurrency payments volume grows by more than 1,200 percent
More and more people are becoming familiar with and are acquiring bitcoins from their friends or acquaintances, while speculating on the stock exchange, through mining or performing other tasks or operations on the internet or otherwise. In fact, the process of earning money would not get people hooked if they did not have the opportunity to spend them. The first bitcoin owners did not have the freedom of choice when it came to using bitcoins as money but today there are much more opportunities to do so, a press release from varle.lt states. […]
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Kremlin rumors buzzing about “shot down U.S. airplane”: lie exposed in a few seconds
A U.S. Air Force C-130J crashed in Afghanistan after it was shot down by Taliban fighters. Eleven people were killed. The Kremlin’s rumor mill began spreading this information Wednesday night. It was quickly exposed to […]
Foreign affairs
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian PM to meet with Japanese counterpart
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, in Tokyo on Friday to discuss economic and political relations. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian PM honors memory of Jew rescuer Sugihara, Hiroshima victims
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, currently visiting Japan, on Thursday honored the memory of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who rescued Jews from the Holocaust, and also paid respect to victims of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. […]