Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė did not consult the government before making her decision to vote in favor of a UN resolution rejecting US President Donald Trump‘s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Thursday. […]
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that a Lithuania-Russia intergovernmental commission could resume its activities. […]
The Vilnius Regional Court ruled on Wednesday that there were no grounds for opening a pre-trial investigation regarding statements by Rūta Vanagaitė, an author and public relations specialist, about Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. […]
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that Lithuania needs to resume political contacts with Moscow because “straightforward and principled communication is better than no communication at all”. […]
Lithuania’s government will decide on an appeal to the European Union‘s (EU) court to annul the European Commission‘s (EC) instruction for Lithuania to pay around 11.3 million euros for allegedly poor administration of support to agriculture. […]
Prienai, a city in southern Lithuania, is living the hour of the star – it has become the Lithuanian city with most mentions in international media after a local basketball club signed a contract with US celebrities. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis says he sees no potential for major changes in the relations with Russia until Moscow revises its position. […]
Lithuania should this year make contacts with representatives of the Russian administration, says the country’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, dismissing the current isolation policies as detrimental and unique in the European Union (EU). […]
Migration procedures for foreigners coming to Lithuania to work have been simplified, while companies hiring staff from abroad can be included in the so-called white list. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė paid 75,500 euros for a land site in the outskirts of Vilnius, delfi.lt news portal said on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania’s residents and historians believe that the three figures with the main contribution to the country’s statehood over the past century include Jonas Basanavičius, the father of national rebirth, Supreme Council Chairman Vytautas Landsbergis and interwar president Antanas Smetona. […]
The most important events of 2017 for Lithuania were the discovery of the February 16 Act of Independence, new law enforcement suspicions in the corruption case and the arrival of NATO troops, Lithuanian journalists interviewed […]
Here are some of the major events to watch for in Lithuania’s politics, culture and society in 2018: […]
Nikolai Philipchenko, an officer of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), has withdrawn his appeal against a Lithuanian court’s decision to sentence him to ten years in prison for spying. […]
After some tightening of alcohol consumption and sales in Lithuania in 2017, new, tighter restrictions are put in place this year. […]
Three years after Lithuania switched to the euro, people in the country and abroad still have over 469 million litas worth of notes and coins, accounting for some 8 percent of the former national currency in circulation as of Jan. 1, 2015, the central bank said. […]
Natural gas prices for almost half a million Lithuanian households that use the fuel for cooking fell by almost 8 percent on Jan. 1, 2018, but prices for consumers using it to heat their homes remained unchanged from last year’s levels. […]
Electricity prices for households in Lithuania have edged down by 1.2 percent on average. […]
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