Increased household consumption and investment are increasingly driving economic growth in Lithuania – without them the Lithuanian economy could have fallen into recession in 2015, according to SEB bank economists. […]
Increased efforts to tackle tax evasion and the black market led to a significant increase in tax revenues for the Lithuanian government in 2015, according to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
The Mayor of Vilnius District, Marija Rekst, is under investigation for hiring her niece to run the municipality’s administration. […]
The television tower in Georgian capital Tbilisi was lit in the yellow green and red of the Lithuanian flag on Wednesday evening to honour Lithuanian freedom defenders. […]
Lithuania’s diplomatic consulates abroad invited Lithuanians and friends of Lithuania to honour the 25th anniversary of the January 13, 1991, events on Wednesday. […]
The Baltic automobile market experienced strong growth in 2015 with 52,058 new cars registered last year, or 7.9% more than in 2014. […]
Former KGB officer Mikhail Golovatov, who is a suspect in the January 13, 1991, massacre in Lithuania, has set up a fund to help other suspects in the case, according to MP Artūras Paulausas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee. […]
Western media reacted to the events of January 1991 in Lithuania cautiously at the time. Almost all the foreign media that covered the events of January 13 condemned the Soviet aggression and respected Lithuania’s fight for freedom. […]
The Labour Party and Order and Justice, two members of Lithuania’s current ruling coalition, are parties whose political fortunes are headed for decline, according to analysts. […]
The tragic stabbing on 12:45 Monday of Arminas Pileckas, a 15-year-old Lithuanian boy living in Sweden, by a 14-year-old boy while the two were at school may potentially bring the discussion about refugees back to the forefront of the Lithuanian public’s attention. Though the Swedish police have yet to confirm the 14-year-old suspect’s name or identity, several Swedish media sites, as well as what is allegedly a video of the altercation that led to the stabbing, indicate that the suspect may have been a Syrian refugee. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-communist head of state, received an award on Wednesday in recognition of his contribution to the country’s freedom. The award was presented by several non-governmental organizations, after the Seimas snubbed Landsbergis for its annual Freedom Prize. […]
The European Commission is working “in two directions” on an anti-monopoly investigation of Russia‘s gas company Gazprom, EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said. […]
Chinese representative are coming to Lithuania to inspect Rail Baltica, the European-gauge railway project that will connect the Baltic states and Western Europe with a view to bidding for contracts, LRT reports. […]
Technological innovation company Eldes has launched a globally unique smoke alarm called Fumerex. […]
The Centre of Registers has opened an Information Security Operations Centre that will protect the cyber security of public records and state level information systems. […]
Vilnius is often hailed as the least expensive capital city among the Baltic countries – at least that is what the Lithuanian Statistical Department claims. However, price comparison website Numbeo.com shows that prices in Vilnius are very similar to Riga, and in some cases, even more expensive. […]
The day of the Defenders of Freedom was commemorated in Lithuania on Tuesday to honour January 13, 1991, the anniversary of the defenders of Lithuanian freedom and the victims of Soviet aggression. Bonfires were burning all around Lithuania as a reminder of the day when the country’s freedom was defended on January 13, 1991. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, the first head of state of Lithuania after secession from the Soviet Union in 1990, has caused minor controversy by refusing to participate in January 13 commemoration events in parliament. […]
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