Economy
Air Baltic cancels flight from Vilnius to Berlin
Latvia’s Air Baltic airline has canceled a flight from Vilnius to Berlin and back on Monday due to a strike in progress in airports of the German capital. […]
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Politics
Lithuanian laws allow disclosing info on people not cleared for classified docs
Lithuanian laws allow making public information about people seeking access to classified documents, the director of the State Security Department (VSD) said on Friday. […]
Culture
House of Basketball including museum planned in Kaunas
The House of Basketball will be established in Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas to accommodate the Lithuanian Basketball Federation and an interactive technology-filled basketball museum. […]
Society
Vytautas Magnus Uni, Euroleague establish joint masters program of studies
Euroleague and Lithuania’s Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) on Thursday announced plans to establish a joint program of master’s studies – management of sports business. […]
Society
Lithuania marks 27 yrs of restored independence with solemn parlt sitting, 2 marches
Lithuania celebrated on Saturday the 27th anniversary of restoration of independence. […]
European Union
President: EU treaties shouldn’t be revised in debates on multiple-speed Europe
Amid the discussions among European Union (EU) leaders on a multiple-speed community with different levels of integration, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday suggested that fundamental treaties should not be amended. […]
Politics
Society
Vilnius declares emergency over Legionnaires’ disease
An emergency has been declared in Vilnius after Legionella bacteria were found in the water systems of several apartment buildings in the Lithuanian capital. […]
Society
Eight refugees from Eritrea relocated to Lithuania
Eight refugees from Eritrea, a country in northeastern Africa, have been relocated to Lithuania under the European Union (EU) program, the Migration Department said on Friday. […]
Defence
President glad national minorities join army, riflemen
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has applauded the response of the country’s citizens of Russian and Polish nationality to growing external threats in the shape of voluntary service in the national defence system. […]
Defence
Politics
Supreme Court judge resigns after questioning in corruption trial
Viktoras Aidukas, judge of the Supreme Court of Lithuania who has been questioned in an investigation, has stepped down. […]
Politics
Conservatives initiating impeachment of SocDem MP Bastys
The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives) are initiating impeachment of Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys who has not received access to classified information due to his links with the criminal world and representatives of Russian energy companies. […]
Politics
President wishes Seimas could “cleanse of nomenclature-style governance”
Lithuania’s parliament, which is opening its spring session on Friday, should rally the “courage to cleanse the remains of nomenclature-style governance,” President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in her congratulatory message. […]
Politics
Seimas speaker mentions impeachment for Bastys, PM sees no grounds
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has said that the parliament might open an impeachment procedure against Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys, if he does not decide to step down from the Seimas leadership and the parliament itself after the State Security Department refused to give him access to classified information due to his personal links with criminal figures and representatives of Russian energy companies. […]
Politics
Bastys didn’t pass security filter due to Rosatom, ex-KGB links
Lithuania’s Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys did not get a permit to work with classified information due to his personal links with representatives of Russian energy companies and the criminal community, a former KGB agent and a pro-Kremlin journalist, shows a report from the State Security Department. […]
Politics
Bastys resigning from parlt vice-speaker but keeps mandate
Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys has told BNS he was stepping down from the post of parliamentary vice-speaker amid the suspicions of shady relations with criminal figures and representatives of Russian energy companies, however, plans to keep his MP mandate. […]
Politics
Security materials contain “nothing much” – Vice Speaker Bastys
After being urged by Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis to step down from the post of Seimas vice-speaker, Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys said he had been acquainted with the materials provided by the State Security Department, pledging to decide after a consultation with the political group. […]
Politics
Official ethics chief resigns
Romas Valentukevičius, the head of the Lithuanian chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK), presented his resignation from the post to Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis on Thursday, March 9, the parliament’s Public Relations Division said. […]
Politics
Key tasks for Seimas’ spring session
Lithuania’s new parliament, which was sworn in last November, is commencing in its spring session on Friday. BNS Lithuania is providing an overview of the most important bills included into the agenda. […]