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Foreign affairs

Lithuanian president off to Iceland for women leaders’ conference

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will pay a two-day visit to Reykjavik on Tuesday and Wednesday to meet with her Icelandic counterpart, Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson, and deliver a speech at a high-level conference of women political leaders from around the globe. […]

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Society

Lithuanian police bust 8 suspects in waste management fraud scheme

Law-enforcement officials have detained eight suspects and conducted 40 searches in Lithuania and an unidentified foreign country in connection to a package waste management fraud scheme, the police said on Monday. […]

Gintautas Paluckas
Politics

Lithuanian SocDems lose popularity – Vilmorus/Lietuvos Rytas poll

Ratings of the opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives, TS-LKD) and the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) remain stable, while the Social Democrats in third suffered a decline in popularity, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian president signs Magnitsky Act into law

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed the so-called Magnitsky Act into law, banning entry to foreigners involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering or human rights violations starting next year. […]