Sports
Kaunas to host International Children’s Games
Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas has won the right to host the International Children’s Games, which is also known as the Olympics for children, in 2017, the municipality said. […]
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Politics
Lithuanian Seimas to hold training for Ukrainian parliament employees
Lithuania’s parliament will this week hold a training for employees of the Ukrainian parliament – civil servants and MP assistants. […]
Defence
US pledges USD 13m for infrastructure at Šiauliai Aviation Base next year
The United States of America intend to earmark 13 million US dollars (EUR 10.6m) to infrastructure development of the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai next year. […]
Society
Lithuanian government intent on reducing corruption threefold within decade
Lithuania’s government intends to set a goal of reducing the number of residents who have paid a bribe by a factor of three by 2025, as compared to this year’s numbers. […]
Defence
Lithuanian special services made attempts to re-recruit people who spied for Belarus
After identifying persons who spied for Belarus, Lithuania’s special services attempted, unsuccessfully, to re-recruit them, says the State Security Department‘s Director General Gediminas Grina. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian president says Turkey is important partner
Before starting an official visit to Turkey on Monday, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said that Turkey is an important partner, since it is a fellow NATO member-state and makes decisions important for the region. […]
Defence
Up to 100 Lithuanian troops will stay in Afghanistan in 2015
Up to 100 Lithuanian troops will continue their service in Afghanistan next year, Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas said during a meeting with Lithuanian soldiers serving in the NATO peace support operation in Afghanistan. […]
Society
Nearly 4 percent of Lithuanians are getting ready to emigrate
Thoughts about emigrating from the country have crossed the minds of 28.9 percent of Lithuanians, according to a DELFI-commissioned poll by Spinter Tyrimai. As many as 3.9 percent are actually preparing to leave. […]
Society
Treasure of golden coins found in central Vilnius
A treasure of 92 US dollars and golden roubles was discovered underground in Vilnius old town this past summer during tests of foundations of a 19-century building. […]
Politics
Lithuanian election commissions start accepting applications for local elections
Election commissions in Lithuania start on Saturday accepting applications for the upcoming local elections next year. […]
Uncategorized
Ukraine’s Lithuanian economy minister wants to improve transparency in state-owned companies
Lithuanian businessman Aivaras Abromavičius, who has been appointed as Ukraine’s new economy minister, has identified the reduction of regulatory burdens and improvement of operating transparency of state-owned companies as his chief goals. […]
Defence
Lithuanian army to purchase ammunition for EUR 15 million
Lithuania’s army is buying ammunition worth almost 50 million litas (almost EUR 15 million), the country’s Ministry of National Defence said on Friday. […]
Culture
Energy
Lithuanian PM promises to “step up efforts” in Visaginas NPP project
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius told his Baltic counterparts in Tallinn on Friday that he would “step up” negotiations with the Japanese corporation Hitachi and partners in Latvia and Estonia on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Visaginas. […]
Society
Defence
Lithuania to call off civilian mission from Afghanistan in March 2015
Lithuania intends to call off its mission performing development cooperation work in Afghanistan as of March 2015. […]
Energy
EU court advocate general’s opinion in Gazprom case is unfavorable to Lithuania
Lithuania’s court should recognize the Stockholm arbitration tribunal’s decision regarding Gazprom‘s gas price for Lithuania, according to the advocate general at the European Court of Justice (ECJ). […]
Economy
Society
Russian Union of Lithuania accuses police of attempts to discredit Russian-speaking community
The searches conducted on Wednesday in several Russian-language schools in Vilnius were aimed at discrediting the local Russian community, the Russian Union of Lithuania said. […]
Society
Former Chechen president’s son fined for document forgery in Lithuania
Former Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev’s son Degi Dudayev was Thursday fined with 3,250 litas (EUR 940) by a Lithuanian court on charges of forging documents. […]