Audronis Navickas, a former Lithuanian Air Force commander, says that “nobody was ever going” to send Russian-made Mi-8 helicopters, which are used in Lithuania for rescue and search operations, to Russia for an overhaul. […]
Police on Sunday morning detained 12 men with airsoft guns in a forest near Nemenčinė, in the district of Vilnius, the Lithuanian Police Department said. […]
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has asked for Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s support in raising issues of importance to Tbilisi at this week’s NATO summit in Brussels. […]
Laura Matjošaitytė, currently deputy chairwoman of the Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission, is likely to be nominated as the next head of the election watchdog. […]
Lithuania violates the rights of prisoners serving life sentences by depriving them of any hope of release, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg ruled on Tuesday. […]
Professional military servicemen and servicewomen will be able to serve in the Lithuanian Armed Forces for around five years longer than they do now. […]
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, on Tuesday unveiled plans by Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) to become a national “umbrella” university. […]
Lithuania will continue to cooperate with the United Kingdom and international community in counter-terrorism efforts, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said as he offered his condolences to British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over Monday’s deadly explosion in Manchester. […]
The total number of students in Lithuania’s general education and higher education schools has dropped by more than 20 percent over the past six years, Statistics Lithuania said in Monday. […]
The Lithuanian language watchdog did not assess certain legal provisions, currently under debate in the Seimas, that would pave the way, among other things, for ethnic Poles who are Lithuanian citizens to have their names spelt in their identity documents with non-Lithuanian characters. […]
Owners of hotels in the Lithuanian capital say that Vilnius Airport has failed to sufficiently inform foreign market participants about its planned 35-day closure for runway reconstruction this summer, the daily Lietuvos Rytas reported on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania’s leaders on Tuesday condemned a suspected terror attack at a pop concert in the English city of Manchester that killed at least 22 people. […]
The Lithuanian language watchdog proposes to allow using non-Lithuanian Latin-based characters for spelling names on the main page of personal identity documents. […]
Government officials on Monday confirmed plans to establish a National Security Commission to help deal with crises. […]
The European Commission has recognized Lithuania’s so-called social model package, including its new Labour Code, as a structural reform and granted the country the requested flexibility in meeting its public deficit target. […]
Lithuanian police are buying a new motor boat that the anti-terrorist operations unit Aras will use for operations at open sea. […]
The Judaica Research Center is opening in the Martynas Mazvydas National Library in Vilnius on Monday. […]
Russian opposition figures say that they want to change Russia, rather than replace its leaders. […]
The fate of Lithuania’s ruling coalition may depend on how the Social Democrats vote on a package of measures aimed at curbing alcohol consumption, Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), the bigger party in the coalition, said on May 19. […]
Around 1,200 troops from 25 NATO member states are taking part in the communications units exercise Steadfast Cobalt, which officially got underway in Lithuania on Sunday. […]
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