Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania Loreta Graužinienė has welcomed the president’s proposal to expand provisions for dual citizenship and underlined that the country’s Constitution needs to be amended to stay in touch with the times. […]
Lithuania could ship natural gas from Klaipėda to Belarus only by rail as volumes would be too low to make investing in infrastructure worthwhile, Arvydas Sekmokas, a former Lithuanian energy minister, said on Tuesday. […]
The Lithuanian Military Academy is preparing premises for the projected National Centre of Cyber Security, Defence Minister Juozas Olekas says. […]
Lithuania’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Klaipėda may supply gas not just to the Baltic countries but, if necessary, to other countries as well, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has said at the 10th Lithuania-Belarus economic forum in Mogilev. […]
The European Union (EU) may revise its sanctions on Russia in the light of Moscow’s conduct in eastern Ukraine where separatists held elections on Sunday, the EU’s Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas said in Lithuania on Monday. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas has criticized the Lithuanian media for what he said were excessively one-sided reports about Russia and its failure to provide a balanced and fair opinion. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has suggested earmarking additional 34.3 million litas (EUR 9.9m) for defence next year. […]
Training grounds in Kazlų Rūda, southern Lithuania, have been upgraded with a special site, which will accommodate city battle exercises of troops of various army units. […]
The Lithuanian Red Cross Society has collected 51,000 litas (EUR 17,800) to support the conflict-ridden Eastern Ukraine, the society’s secretary general Gražina Jvgrafovienė said after the campaign ended on Monday. […]
Decisions on building a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas, eastern Lithuania, are likely to be made sometime around 2018, the chief executive officer of the state-owned energy group Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy) says. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is visiting Belarus this week. While the visit is not exceptional in any way, Lithuania should stay alert and not consider Minsk a well-wishing neighbour, warns political scientist Vytis Jurkonis. […]
A ban on sale of energy drinks to minors comes into effect in Lithuania on Saturday, making it the first country in Europe to introduce such a ban. […]
Experts say that Lithuania has successfully coped with the implementation of the EU’s Third Energy Package, which demands for separating gas transmission, distribution and supply functions. They note that Russia’s Gazprom, a vehement opponent of the reform, sold its stakes in two Lithuanian gas companies at a lower price than some had expected and that gas prices in the country have fallen considerably. […]
Former Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas was on Friday questioned as a special witness in an ongoing investigation into alleged public procurement-related corruption involving ministry staff. […]
A Russian court on Friday adjourned the hearing of the case of Lithuanian fishing vessel Jūros Vilkas (Sea Wolf) detained by Russia in September, the owner’s lawyer Vladimir Odiagailo told BNS on Friday. They case will be heard again in a month. […]
Vilnius Municipality will issue a new call for tenders for the restoration of Soviet statues on the Green Bridge in central Vilnius. The contractor will this time be allowed to remove the statues from the site during renovation. […]
Finding a new interior minister will take a few days, Rolandas Paksas, leader of Lithuania’s Order and Justice party, says, adding that a candidate could be nominated as early as next week. […]
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