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Society

Half of Lithuanians would welcome refugees, the other half wouldn’t – new poll

Lithuanian opinions on resettling refugees in their country are divided almost equally between those who would welcome migrants fleeing war and those who would not. […]

Romuald Lipskij
Society

Belarusian spy’s sentence extended from 3 to 5 years

The Lithuanian Court of Appeals on Tuesday increased the sentence for Romuald Lipskij, a former employee of the state company Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation) convicted of spying for Belarus, to five years. […]

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Foreign affairs

Saudi prisoner at alleged CIA black site in Lithuania requests victim status

A lawyer for Mustafa al-Hawsawi, a Saudi citizen held in the Guantanamo Bay US detention facility, has asked a Vilnius court to grant victim status to her client because he could have been kept in a secret CIA black-site prison near Vilnius. […]

Gedvydas Vainauskas
Politics

Influence peddling case of Lietuvos Rytas group owner goes to court

Prosecutors have completed preliminary investigation into suspected influence peddling by Gedvydas Vainauskas, the chief and shareholder of the Lietuvos Rytas media group, and Antanas Zabulis, CEO of the mobile service provider Omnitel. […]