As the general elections approach, Lithuania’s political parties have become acutely aware of fluctuations in their popularity ratings. The social democrats, the biggest party in the current ruling coalition, continue to top survey results, but will that translate into votes and, eventually, into parliamentary seats? […]
MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, says he will definitely run in this year’s general elections, refuting earlier suggestions that there might be conditions for his giving up a seat in the European Parliament for one in the Lithuanian Seimas. […]
A row has broken out between the Human Rights Monitoring Institute and its director Dovilė Šakalienė, who has been recently dismissed from her job. […]
The Lithuanian army is to buy 340 trucks produced by the German company Daimler AG in a deal worth €60 million, the Ministry of National Defence has announced. […]
Lithuanians are among the least politically active citizens in Europe, according to new research. […]
The new citizenship law which allows for certain Lithuanians with special merit to hold dual citizenship with another country, cannot prevent subjectivity when it comes to decisions on allowing people to maintain or recover national citizenship, according to parliamentarians Stasys Šedbaras and Julius Sabatauskas. […]
Electricity shortages and a sharply increased electricity price on Monday forced the grid operator to turn on the combined cycle gas generating unit at Elektrėnai power plant. […]
Lithuania is demanding that the construction of a Russian-funded nuclear power plant in Astravyets, Belarus, will meet international standards. The plant is only 50km from Lithuania‘s capital Vilnius, meaning in the case of an accident, the city would be in plant’s evacuation zone. […]
Military conscription, which was reinstated in Lithuania last year, was one of the reasons behind a hike in emigration, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes. […]
Equally stringent restrictions on the sale of alcohol should apply to all kinds of alcoholic beverages and all sellers, said Lithuania’s Economy Minister Evaldas Gustas. […]
When Lithuania had huddled up under NATO’s wing, it felt more secure and even unconcerned as to where it would get more funding for its army or how it could modernize it. The events in Georgia and Ukraine, however, jolted the Baltic country out of its lethargy and forced it to look at how it can strengthen its armed forces. […]
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the events of January 13th, 1991, a commemorative international marathon called “On the road of life and death” was held on Saturday in Lithuania and in capital cities all over the world. […]
Vilnius hamburger restaurant Drama Burger will launch in the US market this month, opening an outlet in the city of Tampa, Florida, US. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s U-turn on establishing a new agency to tackle suicide, alcoholism and violence in families in Lithuania may make her a target during the coming election campaign. […]
Lithuanian residents would prefer to receive immigrants of the same ethnic group or race with barely 13 percent wanting to accept immigrants that are of another race or ethnic group. A survey performed by the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) revealed these and other insights into the Lithuanian public’s opinions regarding immigrants. […]
Deeper, a wireless fish-finding sonar device designed by a team of Lithuanian engineers, just won the award for best innovation in the wireless handset category at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), one of the biggest industry exhibitions in the U.S. It is the first time that a fishing device has won a major award at CES. […]
Several dozen energy specialists and politicians have criticised the Lithuanian government’s decision to discontinue electricity production subsidies for combined heat and power plants in Vilnius, Kaunas and Panevėžys. They said that the decision will increase consumers’ electricity and heating bills, while the country will not have sufficient backup electricity generation power. […]
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