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Lithuanian med students say no to bribes for doctors

December 10, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On International Anticorruption Day, the Special Investigation Service shifted their attention to medical institutions, where citizens encounter bribery most often. Doctors blame citizens for giving bribes while patients complain that, without bribes, they won’t receive proper medical attention. Campaigners against corruption say that bribery would disappear if medical institutions themselves were to take resolute actions against corruption and made an effort to take care of their patients. […]

New combat vehicle offers for Lithuanian military from French weapons manufacturer

December 10, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

French weapons manufacturer Nexter has offered infantry combat vehicles with two types of gun system configurations – 30 mm guns or a latest-generation remote-controlled Nexter 40 mm cannon – to the Lithuanian military. […]

Foreign Minister Linkevičius on response to Russian aggression: Inaction itself can be provocative

December 10, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania and other countries in the Eastern block are looking for a clear and decisive message of support from the United States as Russian President Vladimir Putin tests NATO’s decisiveness and tries to fill the “gaps of influence” created by the West’s inability to protect international law and its own interests, said Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius in an interview with The Washington Times on Tuesday. […]

Lithuanian border guards to patrol borders of Bulgaria and Hungary

December 9, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

From December 9, two Lithuanian border guards will help patrol the border between Bulgaria and Turkey, two more will patrol with a service SUV along the Hungary–Serbia border. […]

Lithuania seeks membership in CERN

December 8, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 2 December, the Lithuanian Government adopted a protocol decision on Lithuania’s aspiration to become the Associate Member of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Vilnius University (VU) reports. […]

Transgender Lithuanians share their stories in online videos

December 8, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The Lithuanian LGBT rights group LGL has produced a series of videos in order to raise awareness about and visibility of transgender people in the country. Part of the #TRANS_LT campaign, the videos have been released this week. […]

Men control the money in the EU

December 8, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Men dominate central banks, finance ministries and boardrooms throughout Europe with only one in every 25 top jobs held by a woman, according to a new report on equality between women and men. […]

Lithuania’s teachers to strike despite promised wage raises

December 8, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The Lithuanian government has designated additional 10 million euro to satisfy demands of the teachers trade union. However, teachers still have not given up a plan to hold a strike in around 16 percent or 300 out of the country’s 2,000 schools on December 8. […]

Unique cancer treatment developing centre opened in Vilnius

December 7, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė opened new premises of Thermo Fisher Scientific in Vilnius, which produces magnetic beads that should become a serious antidote in the fight against oncological diseases and HIV. Lithuania is the first and currently the only country in the world starting to produce technological products of such level, the presidential press service said. […]

Vilnius University included in Top 200 universities of emerging and BRICS countries

December 7, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The results of Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016 were announced on 2 December. Vilnius University (VU) made its début in the ranking with the 116th spot, making into the list of top 200 higher education institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and 30 other “emerging countries”, VU reports. […]

Lithuanians still recalculate prices in litas

December 7, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

It has been almost a year since Lithuania has abandoned its national currency for the euro, but many Lithuanians still cling to the litas. A recent survey shows that two out of three Lithuanian shoppers would prefer to see prices indicated in both currencies, the litas and the euro, TV3 television reports. […]

Vilnius to host largest bitcoin conference in Baltics

December 4, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On April 8, 2016, innovation-minded business people and officials, investors, and start-ups from all over the world will be paying a visit to the capital of Lithuania as venture capital fund Nextury Ventures, in association with Vilnius City Municipality, will be holding a conference “The Bitcoin Conference 2016”, the largest cryptocurrency conference in the Baltic states, featuring insights from US investors, experts, practitioners, start-ups, and officials. […]

Juozas Olekas met with US Ambassador Deborah A. McCarthy

US will maintain long-term military presence in Lithuania, ambassador reassures

December 4, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 3 December, Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas discussed his recent visit in the US, assistance to Ukraine, participation in multinational operations and other security and defence issues at a meeting with Ambassador of the United States in Lithuania Deborah A. McCarthy, the Ministry of National Defence reports. […]

Analysts: Lithuania’s competitiveness progress is slow and not where it’s needed

December 4, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

A Baltic Sea region index compiled by Swedbank shows that despite considerable progress, Lithuania is still not as competitive as it could be. Lithuania was placed among the top third of the most competitive countries in the world, which is a better result than last year, but essential progress is still needed. […]

Documentary about Lithuanian folk singers to première at Stanford’s Baltic Film Series

December 3, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

After sold-out premières in Vilnius, Lithuania, and New York, new documentary film “Land of Songs” will have its West Coast Première on the closing night of Stanford University’s 2015 Baltic Film Series. […]

Helena Chatskels (1882–1973), master Yiddish educator of interwar Kaunas

Vilnius Yiddish Reading Circle turns to Lithuanian Yiddish women educators

December 3, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The Vilnius Yiddish Reading Circle, which is celebrating its seventeenth year, has been concentrating this autumn on prewar Yiddish newspapers from Vilnius and Kaunas (Vílne and Kóvne, to use their Yiddish names), trying to balance literary materials with entertaining episodes of the day and the light they shed on a now-vanished civilization that once thrived here. […]

Crimea must remain on OSCE’s political agenda, Lithuanian foreign minister says

December 3, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Prior to the annual OSCE Ministerial Council on 3-4 December, a meeting of the Group of Friends of Ukraine with the Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev was held on Lithuania’s initiative, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]

Lithuanian government endorsed electronic voting

December 3, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The Lithuanian government has approved a bill proposed by the Justice Ministry that would institute a voting system via the Internet. […]

Lithuania offers best public WiFi in the world

December 3, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania has landed the first spot in the list of countries with best public WiFi in the world for the second year in a row. […]

President Grybauskaitė censures ‘witch-hunt’ at Public Security Service

December 3, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

After accusations of disloyalty and corruption were publicly voiced against the leadership of the Public Security Service (VST) and the institution itself, President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said that circumstances and facts must be examined before making judgements. She also criticized the new head of the VST for publicly discussing problems in the service. […]