Articles by LT Daily

Warsaw str. sign in Polish in Vilnius
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Study: Russian propaganda and minority perceptions

September 20, 2016 LT Daily 0

A recently published survey caused a surge of debate on the role of minorities in Lithuania and the implication of the findings to national security, particularly when discussing the Russian and Polish minorities in Lithuania. With Russian propaganda and pro-Kremlin entities and political parties touting issues with Lithuania, US and the West in general, the survey data provides a number of curious insights, Vaidas Saldžiūnas reported in DELFI […]

Artūras Zuokas
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ELECTIONS 2016: Key points on debate of economic from small parties

September 19, 2016 LT Daily 0

Seimas electoral debates are to go on for four weeks leading up to the October Seimas elections. Politicians are to debate on the topics of economics, demographics, justice and social politics. The debate this time included representatives from the Order and Justice Party (TT), Lithuanian Green Party, Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families Union (LLRA), Lithuanian Freedom Union (LLS), S. Buškevičius and Nationalists’ Coalition “Against corruption and poverty”. The first topic for debate was economics. […]

Eligijus Masiulis at DELFI
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ELECTIONS 2016: New opinion poll shows reshuffling at the bottom of the parties’ list

September 19, 2016 LT Daily 0

With the corruption scandal revolving around former party chairman Eligijus Masiulis continuing to batter the Liberal Movement (LS), its chances of entering Seimas are continuing to decrease. The Liberals are accompanied by the Labour Party […]

Romas Lazutka
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ELECTIONS 2016: Economics. Lazutka: Impressed with Skvernelis

September 16, 2016 LT Daily 0

On the evening of September 13 a political debate featuring the top five largest Lithuanian parties was broadcast on LRT Television. The topic of the debate – economics. The debating parties were the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP), Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS), the Labour Party (DP) and the Liberal Movement (LS). LRT.lt interviewed a number of political, economics, business, law and public relations experts and asked them to rate party performance from 1 to 5. […]

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The finish straight: electoral campaign analysis

September 15, 2016 LT Daily 0

With less than a month remaining to the Seimas elections and the Social Democrat Party remaining ahead in polls, DELFI speaks to several experts on how the current circumstances could be evaluated. […]

Internet shop
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Lithuanian retail purchase trends shifting

September 13, 2016 LT Daily 0

More and more retailers are combining traditional sales models with sales over the internet with goods and service purchases on the internet doubling over the last 5 years. This tendency has had an impact on […]

PM Algirdas Butkevičius at the DELFI TV Conference
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Backlash against Central Electoral Commission directive regarding live interviews

September 13, 2016 LT Daily 0

With the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) requesting to cancel an interview with PM Algirdas Butkevičius in the LRT news show Laba Diena, Lietuva (Good day, Lithuania), citing a ban on politicians participating in Seimas elections from appearing on live television shows, there has been a backlash from a number of prominent media figures such as Edmundas Jakilaitis, Rimvydas Valatka and Aistė Žilinskienė. […]

Vilnius
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Lithuania remains the most popular foreign investment destination in the region

September 9, 2016 LT Daily 0

Statistics Lithuania data suggests that the number of foreign-capital firms and their employees increased by a quarter over the past six years in Lithuania. While three global companies moved their production out of the country, […]