Lithuanian national basketball team
Sports

An in-depth analysis of Lithuania’s national basketball team after the third window games!

About 6 minutes into Lithuania’s first game versus Poland on June 28th, I was thinking to myself that Lithuania was in big trouble. They didn’t start out good at all. A scrappy Polish team was putting up an intense fight, jumping out to an early lead. They were knocking down everything from beyond the arc and team LT looked like they had not even practiced. They were very slow on defensive switches and close-outs, which led to these wide-open early three-pointers by Poland. Basically, it looked as though LT was just going through the motions and mailing it in, not caring about winning or putting forth much effort at all […]

Saulius Skvernelis
Energy

Lithuanian PM doubts that Belarus will implement EC’s Astravyets recommendations

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has expressed his doubts that Belarus will implement the European Commission‘s recommendations on the safety of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant. […]

Astravyets NPP
Energy

EC calls on Belarus to assess Astravyets NPP’s seismic safety, improve accident management

The European Commission is expected to publish on Wednesday a stress test review of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant, under construction in Belarus. According to the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the report revealed quite a number of the projects’ drawbacks, and experts from the EU and other countries presented important recommendations on ways to eliminate them and improve the nuclear facility’s safety level. […]

Foreign affairs

Lithuanian president congratulates Trump on American Independence Day

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has extended congratulations to US President Donald Trump on the 242nd Independence Day of the United States of America. […]

All the participants and judges. Photo Deividas Podvolskis
Freetime

Hot curry on a hot night

The British Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania (BCCL), ended their 2017-18 season with the 5th Annual Curry Cook-off on the Čiop Čiop roof top terrace in Vilnius. Six teams prepared various curry dishes for an audience of BCCL members and friends on 28th June, and before three judges – Rajinder Chaudhary, the Honorary Consul of India to Lithuania and owner of Sue’s Indian Raja in Vilnius; Gaspar Fernandes, Chef at Gaspar’s Restaurant in Vilnius and Brand Chef at Baltic master, Evaldas Žaliukas, who was joining the judging panel for the first time. […]

Minister Linas Kukuraitis speaking at the EBN event  Photo © Ludo Segers @ The Lithuania Tribune
Society

The long road integrating and employing persons with disabilities

The European Business Network (EBN) presented on Thursday as part of their monthly breakfast presentation ‘Work and employment of persons with disabilities’ in Vilnius. The minister of Social Security Linas Kukuraitis, himself a former Lecturer of Social Work at Vilnius University was the keynote speaker. Jonas Ruškus, Professor at Vytautas Magnus University, a specialist in employment for disabled people and a member of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the United Nations spoke about the situation of disabled people in Lithuania, the challenges and the progress made so far. […]

Data centre
Defence

Data center developer Arcus Novus poses threat to national security – Lithuanian court

Arcus Novus, the developer of a data center project near Vilnius, and its majority shareholder, Denmark’s SatGate Holding, pose a threat to national security as they are linked to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) through their direct and indirect shareholders, a court has ruled. […]

Politics

Lithuanian president sees no major changes in govt’s tax reform

While the Lithuanian government and the ruling parties’ lawmakers consider the recently passed tax and pension system reforms to be essential, President Dalia Grybauskaitė sees the amendments she has signed into law as adjustments whose results will depend on how they are put into practice, the Delfi.lt news website reported. […]