DELFI EN, Author at the Lithuania Tribune

Peter Pomerantsev: Big media need their Geneva convention

March 9, 2015 DELFI EN 0

As Russia wages war in Ukraine, attacking not just military targets but also basic common sense with aggressive misinformation and propaganda campaign, information has become a security issue. Faced with new and quite unprecedented challenges, big media is approaching a moment when it will need to have a Geneva convention moment – get together and agree on a global self-regulation mechanism, says British journalist and author Peter Pomerantsev. […]

Viešbučių rezervavimo sistema booking.com

Accommodation reservation service Booking.com expanding in Lithuania

March 6, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Accommodation reservation system Booking.com is increasing its presence in Lithuania. […]

MFA statement on the murder of Nemtsov

February 28, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Lithuanian MFA condemns the murder of famous Russian politician and one of the opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov. This brutal crime, which, according to the preliminary data, was well planned and organized, must be immediately investigated, and those responsible brought to justice. […]

US diplomat acknowledges NATO discussions about hybrid war

February 28, 2015 DELFI EN 0

During a visit to Vilnius, U.S. Mission to NATO DCM Lee Litzenberger acknowledged that the hybrid war Russian President Putin is fighting in Ukraine has prompted discussions about how Article 5 of the Washington Treaty can be applied. And these questions have no answers yet. […]

Russia presents Vilnius with letter of protest over arms supply to Ukraine

February 27, 2015 DELFI EN 0

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Lithuania made an announcement on Friday afternoon that Moscow was sending a protest note to Vilnius. […]

Kariuomenės dienos minėjimas Katedros aikštėje

Lithuania to reintroduce military conscription

February 24, 2015 DELFI EN 0

The State Defence Council, comprising of the Lithuanian president, prime minister, parliament speaker, defence minister and army chief, decided on Tuesday to reintroduce military conscription in Lithuania. […]

More details about Google expansion plans in Lithuania

February 20, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Talks have been around for some time now that US internet giant Google is looking into expanding in Lithuania. At the moment, however, the company is only looking for a Lithuanian-speaking finance specialist for a job in Dublin and does not reveal any details about possible plans to settle in Vilnius. […]

Two Hilton hotels to be opened in Vilnius

February 19, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Two Hilton hotels might spring up in Lithuania’s capital city Vilnius over the coming years. […]

Group of MPs want Lithuanian government to pick a fight with Norway over children’s welfare

February 18, 2015 DELFI EN 0

A group of Lithuanian legislators, mostly conservatives, want the government to pick a fight with Norway over kids taken from Lithuanian immigrant families by Norwegian child services. […]

Vytautas Landsbergis on Minsk agreement: It is worse than Munich

February 13, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-Soviet leader and honorary chairman of the conservative Homeland Union, says that the Minks agreement for ceasefire between Kiev’s forces and Moscow-supported separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine, which was signed on Thursday, is worse than the Munich agreement of 1938. […]

Lithuanian historian: Moscow does not have moral right to host end of WWII celebrations

February 11, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Ronaldas Račinskas, the head of the International Commission for the Evaluation of Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, approves of the ideas of Polish politicians when they say that events marking the end of World War II hostilities should take place in other European capitals and not in Moscow. He says that Russia continues to justify its actions with categories from World War II. […]

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Ukraine peace talks: What are the goals and the stakes?

February 10, 2015 DELFI EN 0

While Ukraine‘s government forces are fighting pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Donbass region, Western leaders are engaging in a tense diplomacy game with Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]

Polish investigator who kidnaps Lithuanian children from Norway’s child services: We did things we cannot talk about

February 6, 2015 DELFI EN 0

It is a public secret what Krzysztof Rutkowski, a Polish private investigator, does for a living. He is helping people who have had their parental rights restricted by Norway‘s child welfare services to get their children back. Rutkowski tells DELFI that he has worked with families from Lithuania, too. […]

DELFI shareholder: Dictatorial propaganda has taught us to value freedom of press

February 5, 2015 DELFI EN 0

One of Estonia‘s richest people and shareholder of DELFI, one of the biggest media groups in the Baltics, Hans Luik shares stories about getting into the media industry, doing business in Ukraine and challenges to free media raised by dictatorial governments as well as technological advances. […]

Pristatomas Johno Lennono skulptūros gipsinis modelis

Vilnius to have monument for John Lennon

February 5, 2015 DELFI EN 0

A bronze statue of John Lennon, the legendary Beatles musician, will be erected in a square in central Vilnius, Lithuania. […]

Society

Dual citizenship debate continues as prominent compatriots lose Lithuanian passports

February 2, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Lithuanian businessman Aivaras Abromavičius, who was recently appointed to run Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy, is about to lose his Lithuanian passport. […]

What made Lithuania the new darling of international tourism?

January 30, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Lithuania has recently received much attention in the international press: it has been named among top places to visit by publications like Forbes, Business Insider and the Huffington Post. […]

People evacuated after bomb threat at Lithuania’s LNG terminal

January 28, 2015 DELFI EN 0

The Emergency Call Centre received a phone call on Wednesday from a woman claiming there was a bomb placed underneath the floating LNG terminal in the seaport of Klaipėda, west Lithuania. Emergency services were alerted immediately and people evacuated from the embankment. No explosives were found. […]

Andreas Umland: Putin created alternative reality for Russians

January 28, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Russian people are living in an alternative reality created for them by President Vladimir Putin, one completely disconnected from the rest of the world, says German political scientist Andreas Umland, senior research fellow, at Kyiv-based Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation. […]

Russian ambassador sends mixed message in WWII congratulation letter to Lithuania

January 26, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Alexander Udaltsov, the Russian Ambassador to Lithuania, has released a public letter, congratulating the country on “the 70th anniversary of Lithuania’s liberation from the Germans-fascists”. The ambassador also makes references to topical issues of today, like the conflict in Ukraine, that are designed to provoke controversy, a Lithuanian political observer says. […]