On Tuesday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius left for a working visit to Iceland to participate in a meeting of the prime ministers of the Nordic and Baltic countries (NB8) in Reykjavik on Wednesday, the prime minister’s press service said. […]
Exactly 70 years ago in October, 1945, the Lithuanian power system was put into operation. The operation of generators at the Kaunas and Vilnius power plants was synchronized after a power line connecting the power plants had been installed, and the balance between power generation and consumption was maintained by the central system control centre. […]
The Embassy of Lithuania, together with the Embassies of Poland and Belarus, organised a concert in the Flemish town Heist-op-den-Berg (province of Antwerp), which was dedicated to celebrate the 250th birth anniversary of Michał Kleofas Ogiński. […]
On 25-26 October, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius visited Berlin, where he discussed bilateral relations between Lithuania and Germany, the Eastern Partnership, and assistance to Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
To mark the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, the Gediminas Tower, one of the best-known icons of the capital city of Lithuania, was lit up blue, the official colour of the United Nations, on the UN Day, 24 October, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
US tanks M1A2 Abrams arrived in Lithuania, Rukla, on Sunday. The tanks will be used in joint Lithuanian–US training. […]
Four percent fewer people think the situation in Lithuania is bad, compared to survey results from last year, although scepticism grew 3 percent from the previous month. According to a survey this September, 34% of adult respondents thought that the situation in Lithuania was getting better, while 65% said that situation was getting worse. […]
Member of the Lithuanian Parliament Emanuelis Zingeris (Homeland Union), who is observing local government elections in Ukraine, says the vote is being handled “in a solid and mature manner”. […]
October 25 is celebrated as the Constitution Day in Lithuania. On this day in 1992, Lithuanians voted for the country’s current democratic Constitution which was endorsed by over 75% of all voters. […]
The expected triumph of the right-wing Law and Justice party in Poland‘s parliamentary elections will likely make relations between Vilnius and Warsaw more tense, particularly on issues pertaining to ethnic minorities, says Professor Šarūnas Liekis of Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University. […]
The Lithuanian Embassy in Sweden, together with the Lithuanian State Department of Tourism and the Swedish partners, organized the event “Welcome to Lithuania” on 22 October in Stockholm to present the Lithuanian tourism opportunities. […]
The Supreme Court of Lithuania ruled on Friday to uphold a verdict passed by Stockholm Arbitration court which bound Lithuania not to adjudicate in a dispute with Gazprom. […]
The Social Democrats have proposed to completely transform the current election system in Lithuania. Their proposal includes abolishing single-seat constituencies, dividing Lithuania into 10 voting districts. […]
Lithuanian PM Algirdas Butkevičius has said everyone should care about the challenges of climate change. The prime minister signed a declaration on climate change together with other state leaders and members of the Party of European Socialists on Wednesday in Paris. […]
Defence ministers and army commanders of Belgium and Luxembourg are coming to Lithuania on Thursday to observe the international military exercise Baltic Piranha. […]
On 20 October in Vilnius, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Andrius Krivas, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defence met with a group of experts from the Influential US think tank Atlantic Council, led by Magnus Nordenman, to discuss current challenges to Lithuania’s security, measures to ensure security and potential support from allies in this field. […]
QS World University Rankings has published a list of the best universities in the region of Emerging Europe and Central Asia. Vilnius University (VU) jumped up by 13 ranking positions and made it to the top 20, ranking in the 19th place, the university reports. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė opened the first ever Israeli Litvak Forum in Tel Aviv. In her address to Jews with roots in Lithuania and their descendants, the president emphasized their special contribution to establishing Lithuania’s ties with the world and invited them to foster what connects Lithuanian and Jewish nations, the press service of the president said. […]
The Lithuanian Gay League (LGL), an LGBT rights organization, has announced that Baltic Pride 2016 will take place in Vilnius in June, with the main events – the pride march followed by a concert – planned in central locations of the Lithuanian capital. […]
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