Two new research centres – the Joint Centre for Life Sciences and National Centre of Physical and Technological Sciences – just opened in the Sunrise Valley in Vilnius will allow Lithuania to become an innovative country, President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius have said. […]
Lithuanian citizens adopted 99 children last year and foreigners adopted 62, figures from the State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service show. […]
Lithuania is rapidly approaching its commitment to spend 2 percent of its GDP on defence, said Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
Lithuania’s economy is stable and will grow in the future, the secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in Vilnius on Monday. […]
The European Union has a united position on Russia, says Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius who on Monday attended an EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting to discuss relations with Russia. […]
CEO of Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy), Lithuania’s state-owned energy holding, says the company intends to take part in Gazprom’s natural gas auction for the Baltic countries this week, but the auction price will have to be comparable to those in Europe and lower than the one offered by Gazprom to companies early this year. […]
Mandatory initial military service should be reintroduced in Lithuania for good rather than for five years, the State Defence Council decided on Monday. […]
About 1,000 people took part in a controversial rally organized by the Union of National Youth in central Vilnius, chanting slogans “Lithuania for Lithuanians”. The event was held on March 11, when Lithuania celebrated the 26th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union. […]
Lithuania’s Supreme Court on Thursday cleared presidential spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė on the charges of leaking classified information. […]
The European Humanities University (EHU), a Vilnius-based Belarusian school in exile, is holding a donors’ conference on Thursday to discuss the university’s finances and future role. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday appointed Juras Požela of the Social Democratic Party as the country’s new health minister. […]
Journalists from the Russian state-run television channel Rossiya attempted to trick their way into a forum attended by Russian opposition figures and intellectuals in Trakai, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has confirmed. […]
About 50 people gathered outside the Russian Embassy in Vilnius at noon on Wednesday, calling for the release of Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who is continuing her hunger strike in protest of the court’s proceedings. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has asked his energy minister to find out if it is technically possible to restrict the supply of electricity from Belarus’ new nuclear power plant, which is part of the so-called BRELL energy ring that also includes the Baltic countries and Russia. […]
While there are some close ties between leaders of several Lithuanian trade unions and their Russian colleagues, they constitute no threat to national security, says MP Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee. […]
Replacing the government months before general elections would be “irresponsible”, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday, after the Social Democratic Party had accused her of attempts to overthrow PM Algirdas Butkevičius‘ cabinet. […]
The Vilnius Tax Inspectorate has filed an appeal against a court ruling in the Labour Party‘s case, asking the Supreme Court to order the guilty persons to pay more than €174,000 euros in unpaid taxes. […]
The makers of Boxer infantry fighting vehicles are interested in cooperation with Lithuanian business in producing and maintaining the IFVs that would be sold to the Lithuanian army. […]
Trakai, a town in southern Lithuania, is hosting a forum of several dozen Russian intellectuals, journalists, public figures and politicians who will discuss Russia and its relations with the West. The speakers include world chess champion Gary Kasparov, journalist Masha Gessen and a member of Pussy Riot. […]
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