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Society

Lithuanian who aided Soviet deportations in 1951 receives sentence

A Lithuanian court has found Jonas Gailiūnas, 88, guilty of deportations of civilians, sentencing him to five years in prison, though he will not go to jail due to his frail health.

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Jens Stoltenberg
Defence

‘We will agree on battalions for Baltic states’ – NATO chief

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that the Allied nations would agree to establish an international battalion in each of the Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as in Poland.

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Society

Pride march in Vilnius aimed at raising LGBT visibility and tolerance

Baltic Pride festival and march to be held in the centre of Vilnius next week is aimed at increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the society, an organizer said on Friday. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

Grybauskaitė delivers scathing criticism of inefficient state-owned companies

Lithuania’s state-owned companies operate inefficiently, pay no dividends to the state, their funds are used to purchase media outlets, and they serve as “havens for unemployed party members”, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday. […]