DELFI EN, Author at the Lithuania Tribune

Red Army choir fails to find venue for performance in Lithuania

October 26, 2015 DELFI EN 0

The choir of the Russian armed forces, the Alexandrov Ensemble, had to give up plans to perform in Lithuania after organizers failed to find a venue for the performance. […]

Eligijus Masiulis, left, and Antanas Guoga

Lithuanian liberals re-elect party leader on platform of tax cuts and e-voting

October 26, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Lithuania’s Liberal Movement re-elected the party’s current leader Eligijus Masiulis for another term in the position during the party congress on Saturday. […]

Lithuania prefers refugee families from different regions of Syria, deputy minister says

October 19, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Lithuanian Deputy Minister of the Interior Elvinas Jankevičius says Italy and Greece must compile lists of refugees eligible for resettlement in Lithuania. After that, they can start arriving as soon as possible, he has said on Monday. […]

Competition Council should keep an eye on the newest Teo purchase

October 16, 2015 DELFI EN 0

IT and telecommunications company Teo has purchased 100 percent of the shares of the Lithuanian mobile service provider Omnitel from its current shareholder TeliaSonera. The move has provoked a lot of discussion in the Lithuania public sphere and that shouldn’t surprise anyone as the purchase is one of the biggest in Lithuania’s business history. Both companies are owned by Swedish Company TeliaSonera. […]

Lithuania’s most influential: entrepreneurs and economists

October 14, 2015 DELFI EN 0

DELFI, in cooperation with the magazine Reitingai and pulbic opinion pollster Spinter Tyrimai, has put together lists of Lithuania’s most influential people in various fields of activity. […]

Lithuania’s most influential politicians

October 7, 2015 DELFI EN 0

The Lithuanian public believes that the country’s most influential politicians are President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and former President Valdas Adamkus. Meanwhile a survey of over 500 opinion leaders in politics, business and society has revealed that they think Lithuania’s most influential are Grybauskaitė, Butkevičius and the country’s former head of state Vytautas Landsbergis. […]

Doubts about Ten Walls’ new project being vehicle for pro-LGBT message

October 5, 2015 DELFI EN 0

The career of Lithuanian producer-musician Marijus Adomaitis, better known internationally as Ten Walls, took a serious hit when the artist’s homophobic rant on Facebook went viral. After a summer out of the public eye, Ten Walls returns with an apology and a project he says will redeem him with his LGBT fans. The latter claim, however, has left some unconvinced. […]

Putin’s UN speech means Russia is back in the game

September 29, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Vladimir Putin is back in the international arena. That is the significance of the Russian president’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly, says Lithuanian political scientist Gražvydas Jasutis. […]

Lithuanian snatches first iPhone 6s in New York

September 28, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Sworn Apple aficionados often spend hours queuing at Apple stores before the launch of a new product. The new iPhone 6s, which hit the shelves on Friday, had buyers crowd all night to be the first ones to leave with the new gadget. The lucky first customer at the Apple store in Manhattan was a girl from Vilnius. […]

Syrian refugee: Doing business is hard in Lithuania

September 28, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Pierre Naoum sold his property in Syria and invested the money into a pizza restaurant that he opened in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he was granted asylum. […]

Lithuania’s municipalities reluctant to welcome refugees

September 22, 2015 DELFI EN 0

As Lithuania has agreed to relocate 1,105 refugees, the country’s Welfare and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė has sent out letters to each of Lithuania’s 60 municipalities asking them to specify how much they can contribute to the effort. The responses have been less than encouraging. […]

Study estimates benefits of accepting refugees for Lithuania

September 18, 2015 DELFI EN 0

In the “optimistic scenario”, Lithuania will recover what it will have invested into resettling and integrating refugees within five years. The “pessimistic scenario” draws the line at nine years. In either case, the country will benefit from accepting refugees: Lithuania will have demonstrated its adherence to the European Union values. Not to mention the migrants’ contribution to economic growth. […]

Lithuanian in Germany: I almost feel guilty for not doing more for refugees

September 18, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Asta Borusevičiūtė from Lithuania has been living in Hamburg, Germany, for five years and has been very emotionally involved, along with the entire country, in the ongoing refugee crisis. “I live on this subject. In my circles, everyone’s doing something for them [refugees]. I almost feel guilty for not finding time to help out,” the young woman tells DELFI, adding that she plans to volunteer at a charity processing office. […]

Karen Dawisha: Signs of rift within Putin’s kleptocracy

September 15, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Back when the future president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, was still working at the Mayor’s Office of Saint Petersburg, shiny new Mercedes cars were not quite as ubiquitous on the streets of the city as they are now. However, there were two parked in the yard of a newly renovated building that was to be converted to South Africa’s consulate. […]

Lithuanian company has job offers for refugees

September 11, 2015 DELFI EN 0

As thousands of refugees fleeing wars in the Middle East and Africa arrive in Europe, Lithuania, too, is going to accept more asylum seekers than previously planned. Some employers in the country say they will welcome new potential employees. […]

How Lithuanian-Polish feud and Baltic Entente played into Soviet hands

September 7, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Between the two world wars, Lithuania was an enthusiastic new nation state caught in a precarious international situation. Trapped between two expansionist powers, Germany and the Soviet Union, Lithuania tried to strengthen its security, but the main handicap was its feud with Poland over Vilnius. One diplomat tried to change that but it was too late. […]

Deep inside Russia: A few questions that guys in Petrozavodsk backyard have for Lithuania

August 21, 2015 DELFI EN 0

The most changeless of all places in the world. That’s Petrozavodsk, a city in Russia’s north-west and the capital of the Republic of Karelia, according to its inhabitants. They express strong sympathy with Lithuanians because of corruption, their “Washington-serving president” and membership in the “homosexual union”. […]

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Dolphins spotted off Lithuania’s Baltic coast

August 14, 2015 DELFI EN 0

A couple of dolphins have been spotted in the Baltic Sea close to the Smiltynė beach near the port city of Klaipėda. […]

Death Russian style

August 14, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Nothing can relate you more about the life and existence of a people than its relationship with death. Death is an inevitable conclusion; what’s left behind when there’s nothing else; the very essence. […]

Lithuanian game developer with 30m users aiming to triple revenue in 2015

August 12, 2015 DELFI EN 0

With over 30 million downloads worldwide of their game development platform, Kaunas-based TutoTOONS is going from strength to strength. Established as a start-up two years ago by two Lithuanian game developers, the company now has 15 staff in Kaunas and Barcelona, and has ambitious plans for further expansion. One of TutoTOONS’s founders, Mantas Radvila, makes no secret of the fact that he had a chance to settle in the US and develop his business there, but chose Lithuania instead. DELFI, a Lithuanian media network, caught up with Mr Radvila to discover the reasons behind this decision, and what the secret of the company’s success is. […]