Articles by BNS

Lithuania’s Law on the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal, as amended, complies with the Constitution, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday. […]

Vytautas Jonas Žukas, Juozas Olekas, Dalia Grybauskaitė, Algirdas Butkevičius, Loreta Graužinienė

Lithuanian State Defence Council wants additional EUR 150m in defence spending

Lithuania’s State Defence Council has proposed raising the 2016 defence budget by further 150 million euros. […]

Patackas, Lithuanian MP and Independence Act signatory, dies at 71

Lithuanian MP Algirdas Patackas, the signatory of the 1990 Independence Act, passed away at the age of 71 after a long illness, the parliament’s office confirmed to BNS on Friday. […]

Turkish foreign minister coming to Lithuania

Turkey‘s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is coming to Lithuania on Friday. […]

Vilnius street lighting upgrade project at risk of falling through

The project on the upgrade and maintenance of street lighting networks in Vilnius may fall through as Italy’s Gemmo, the project contractor, may run out of time to agree with banks on funding. […]

Gazprom withdraws claim against Lithuania

Gazprom has withdrawn its claim against Lithuania over the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) Third Energy Package. […]

Lithuanian prosecutors resume CIA prison probe

Lithuanian prosecutors have resumed an investigation into alleged operations of US Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) secret detention centre on Lithuanian soil. […]

US congressman in Vilnius: Russia is a bully we must stand up to

Russia is threatening other countries, because this is Moscow’s way of working, US House Committee on Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]

Printing shop of counterfeit euro notes found in Lithuania’s Kaunas

The authorities busted a printing shop that was making counterfeit euro notes in Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas on Wednesday, the police said at a news conference on Thursday. […]

Lithuanian reserve troops to be mobilized for exercise

Lithuania’s Armed Forces is Thursday starting to send out induction papers to reserve soldiers for one-day mobilization exercise to check the performance of the mobilization system. […]

No Lithuanians were aboard sunken Russian ship

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it had received a confirmation that there were no Lithuanian citizens aboard the fishing boat that sunk in Russia. […]

Diplomats working to find out if Lithuanians were on sunken Russian ship

Lithuanian diplomats are working to establish whether Lithuanian citizens were aboard the Russian fishing vessel that sunk close to the coasts of Kamchatka on Thursday. […]

German foreign minister calls off visit to Lithuania due to Iran talks

The Baltic tour of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has been cancelled due to prolonged negotiations on Iran, diplomats said on Thursday. […]

Gazprom asks Vilnius court for full access to documents on EUR 36m anti-trust fine

A Vilnius court on Wednesday started hearing Gazprom‘s request to grant it full access to documents regarding a fine of almost 35.7 million euros imposed on the Russian gas giant by the Lithuanian competition watchdog. […]

German foreign minister and US Congressional delegation on visit in Lithuania

Germany‘s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and a US Congressional delegation are visiting Lithuania on Thursday, with the situation in Ukraine and regional security topping the agenda of their meetings with Lithuanian leaders. […]

Oscar-winning French director says he is happy with his Lithuanian name

Oscar-winning French film director Michel Hazanavicius, who has visited Vilnius, says he is grateful to his grandfather for not changing his name after moving to France. […]

Vilnius University inaugurates new rector

Physics professor Artūras Žukauskas was inaugurated as the new rector of Lithuania’s oldest education institution, Vilnius University, at a ceremony on Wednesday. […]

Lithuania will have hard time meeting this year’s budget targets, economist says

After the International Monetary Fund has warned that Lithuania this year is facing serious challenges in public finances, an economist says that meeting this year’s budget targets will not be easy. […]

Lithuanian defence minister wants conscripts’ families and employers fined for not passing summons

Parents, spouses and employers should be put under the obligation of handing conscription papers to persons liable to military duty, Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said in one of the proposals to the parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday. […]

Prosecutor wants Vilnius vice-mayor Adomavičius jailed for corruption