It still pays to defraud, steal and avoid taxes in Lithuania, the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday, commenting on the Court of Appeals verdict in the Labour Party‘s fraudulent bookkeeping case. […]
Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis says that a broad political consensus is needed in Lithuania on the issue of the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus. […]
Jews living in Lithuania never said Lithuanians were a nation of Jew-shooters and don’t plan on doing so, but Lithuania should acknowledge the topic of the Holocaust, Faina Kukliansky, the leader of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, said in a press release issued in the wake of heated discussions on the Holocaust. […]
About 67% of the Lithuanian population fully or in part agree on the need to increase defence funding to 2% of the gross domestic product (GDP), shows a poll published by the Ministry of National Defence. […]
The Lithuanian Court of Appeals is to hand down a ruling in the Labour Party‘s bookkeeping fraud case on Monday, paving way for the verdict in the case to take effect. […]
Former Vilnius mayor Artūras Zuokas, leader of the Lithuanian Freedom Union, says his party is planning to approach the Liberal Movement about joining forces in the general elections this October. […]
Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė, who said last Friday she was stepping down over suspected corruption, will submit her letter of resignation after the prime minister comes back from holidays next week. […]
Soviet Union‘s Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov has been named in the so-called January 13 case in Lithuania. He is accused of establishing in late 1990 an organized group of 160 army officers and political figures, aimed at re-incorporating Lithuania into the USSR, according to the indictment drafted by Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office. […]
American ice dancer Isabella Tobias, who was granted Lithuanian citizenship in 2013 to be able to represent the country at the Sochi Olympics, is reported to have adopted Israeli nationality ahead of the European championships. If that proves to be true, she will be stripped of her Lithuanian passport, the Interior Ministry said. […]
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office and the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) are conducting a probe into alleged illegal activities by Vilniaus Prekyba, one of Lithuania’s biggest business groups, and its shareholders, including Lithuania’s richest businessman, Nerijus Numavičius. Numavičious assets are worth an estimated €1.3 billion. […]
Both the Lithuanian president and the prime minister said on Friday that Health Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė of the Social Democrats should step down amid corruption suspicions. The minister said she would hand in a letter of resignation and wait for the prime minister’s decision. […]
Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian citizens charged in the January 13, 1991, coup in Lithuania case may stand trial in absentia, a Vilnius court ruled on Friday. […]
The dropping value of the currencies of Russia and Belarus has forced some migrant workers from these countries to make their way to Lithuania, mostly illegally, the State Border Guard Service says. […]
Lithuania could become a regional logistics centre for the US military, says Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday it had allocated EUR 20,000 in humanitarian aid to refugees in Turkey. […]
Lithuania’s Migration Department has refused to issue a temporary residence permit to a Belarusian man who married his Lithuanian male partner in the Netherlands. […]
The international community should not demand that the Ukrainian government grants autonomy to its eastern regions until Russia ensures security in the region, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius argues in an op-ed piece published in the Wall Street Journal. […]
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