During the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union congress and council meeting to be held in Naisiai, Šiauliai region on Saturday, several members of the council intend to urge party leader Ramūnas Karbauskis to answer questions […]
Vilnius City Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has dismissed Go Vilnius CEO Darius Udrys from office. […]
In recent days the words of “Farmer” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis have received much attention with him commenting about a potential new economic crisis. The politician claimed his statement was based on economist forecasts. BNS interviewed […]
Lithuania’s government supports the European Commission (EC) initiative to set up a European Defense Fund, which Brussels believes would enable countries of the community to make more efficient investments in the weaponry they purchase. […]
Lithuania’s legal alcohol consumption per person aged 15 years and over last year amounted to 13.2 liters, down by 0.8 liters from 14 liters in 2015, according to preliminary figures from the country’s statistics office. […]
Construction of a fence on Lithuania’s border with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave is expected to start next week. […]
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius on Tuesday is taking part in a meeting of foreign ministers of the Baltic, Nordic and Visegrad Group countries in Poland. […]
Lithuanians back a complete ban on alcohol advertising, shortening of sale hours and raising of the legal drinking age to 20, but they do not support plans to set up specialized alcohol stores and to prohibit the sale of alcohol at large public events, according to the latest opinion poll published on Delfi.lt. […]
NATO fighter-jets serving in the Baltic air-policing mission were last week scrambled six times from Lithuania over Russian warplanes flying above the Baltic Sea. […]
Lithuania’s government discussed at a closed meeting on Monday the draft tax reform prepared by the Finance Ministry, sources told BNS. […]
Amid the increasingly heated discussions in the Baltic states about the financing of the European-gauge Rail Baltica project from European Union (EU) funds, Wim van de Camp of the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee says that the three Baltic states would definitely secure European funding for the project, if they are strong and demonstrate determination for the huge investment. […]
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has the same plan for Crimean Tatars as the Soviet Union’s former dictator Stalin did, when he wanted to expel them from the peninsula, Refat Chubarov, president of the Worldwide Congress of Crimean Tatars and a member of Ukraine’s Supreme Rada, said in Vilnius on Monday. […]
Spying gear of Russian intelligence services was this year found in computers of three Lithuanian state institutions, says Rimtautas Černiauskas, director of the National Cyber Security Service. […]
The state-run company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG) that has lately drawn attention from the media and the law-enforcement over lack of transparency was also engaged in million-euro deals with Baltkran company registered in the Russian Kaliningrad region, delfi.lt news portal said. […]
When I go abroad I like to have a chat with taxi drivers – they help better understand the moods of the public. A young taxi driver I met in Warsaw in May this year cursed “I’m emigrating in a month to Norway with my family and won’t return until Jaroslaw Kaczynski is behind bars.” This is how he evaluated the work of the Poland‘s majority government leader. I was reminded of this story when some “Facebook friends,” who are Conservative/Liberal voters from Vilnius spoke of emigration if Ramūnas Karbauskis’ “Peasant Greens” enter government. Karbauskis himself states that the fight with emigration will be his greatest priority Vaidas Beniušis writes in BNS. […]
Lithuania’s Defence Ministry on Tuesday said it was recalling Defense Attache to Russia Saulius Pikturna due to family reasons, however, did not elaborate on media reports about his marriage with a Russian citizen from Crimea. […]
The leader of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius, has been summoned for questioning by the Special Investigation Service. […]
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