Irena Degutienė, a long-standing member of the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, does not plan to stand for election during the upcoming elections in Lithuania, and is also considering retiring from politics altogether. […]
Lithuanian Economy Minister Virginijus Sinkevičius hopes the business sector will take care of the Geographical Centre Of Europe, an open air museum, which is being sold, and make it more attractive. […]
Archeologists have found the remains of Lithuanian partisan Albinas Ivanauskas at the Orphans’ Cemetery in the Antakalnis area of Vilnius. They were found near the place were the remains of Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas were discovered in June, the LNK TV channel reports. […]
The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union sees Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis as their sole candidate in the upcoming presidential election and does not have any alternative candidates, Economy Minister Virginijus Sinkevičius, representing the LFGU, says. […]
Liberum veto (Latin for “the free veto”) is what the right of every nobleman not to permit adopting laws at the Sejm was called in the Commonwealth of the Two Nations. This right formed intensively after the Union of Lublin. But in the times of Sigismund Vasa (1587–1632) many decisions were taken unanimously. Why? […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Tuesday welcomed the European Union’s decision to impose sanctions on six companies which were involved in the construction of a bridge connecting mainland Russia with Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia. […]
As Lithuania marks the 27th anniversary of the Medininkai massacre on Tuesday, state leaders and other officials have called for not forgetting the important and painful sacrifice for Lithuania’s freedom. […]
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis advises Lithuanians not to use the Yandex.Taxi ride-sharing application which he says collects excessive user data. […]
Lieutenant Colonel Rene Braun of Germany will take over as commander of NATO’s multinational battalion in Lithuania in a ceremony on Thursday, the Defense Ministry said. […]
A court has upheld Kaunas‘ decision to name Turkey’s Kayi Insaat Sanayi ve Ticaret as the winning bidder for a contract to reconstruct the Darius and Girėnas Stadium in Lithuania’s second-biggest city. […]
A week ago a campsite with friends and family members near Vilnius marked the end of the round the world trip for two motorcycle enthusiasts Asta Dovydėnaitė and Linas Mockevičius. In 640 days or more than 21 months the two travelers traversed more than 100 thousand kilometers and visited 45 different countries. […]
Lithuanian vine growers say they are having the best summer for grape growing in the past 35 years, LNK TV News has reported. […]
Julius Pranevičius is likely to be become Lithuania’s ambassador to India. […]
Social Democrat Vilija Blinkevičiūtė continues to rank as the most active Lithuanian member of the European Parliament and Waldemar Tomaszewski, leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania–Christian Families Alliance (EAPL-CFA), remains the least active, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Tuesday, citing data from Mepranking.eu. […]
Asta Kriščiūnaitė-Dantoni , Tuscany Lithuanian community founder and chairman of the board, recently told the LRT.lt news outlet that Italians tend to believe disinformation. “They have it in their heads that we speak Russian and don’t know our country’s history,“ she said. She’s happy to be working hard to change these misconceptions, lrt.lt writes. […]
After Poland has closed beaches along its Baltic Sea coast due to a toxic algae bloom, experts say that that there is no such risk in Lithuania. […]
Gypsies originated in Indian Peninsula and left their native lands in the Middle Ages after choosing nomadic way of life. In the 15th century, their traces are already evident in Central Europe and it is likely that they reached the territory of Lithuania at about the same time. It is thought that the Great Duke of Lithuania Aleksandras granted Gypsies the privilege in 1501 allowing them to roam all over the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Moving from one place to another they would earn they daily bread through the trade of wizardry and, forced by deprivation and poverty, eventually got involved in the inglorious “craft”, stealing. This is why the image of Gypsies in Lithuania has gradually diminished to persons involved in magic and horse stealing. […]
More than 100 soldiers from the Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas Battalion have left for the United States to participate in an exercise, the military said on Monday. […]
Officials in some Lithuanian cities are skeptical about the Environment Ministry’s proposal to impose restrictions on diesel cars starting in 2020. […]
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