The Charity Gala Dinner and auction in Belmontas on 23 October will officially open the Children’s Cancer Foundation established recently in Lithuania at the initiative of the Danish Chamber of Commerce. […]
Although the real gunshots are echoing from Ukraine, which is thousands of kilometres away from Lithuania, the echoes of warfare in our country’s cyberspace are heard loud and clear and, unfortunately, are likely to get even more so. So says Kaunas University of Technology Professor Algimantas Venčkauskas. […]
“If I wanted, in two days I could have Russian troops not only in Kiev, but also in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw, and Bucharest”, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said, according to a report in Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung on 18 September. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has congratulated the new Polish diplomacy chief, Grzegorz Schetyna, on assuming office. […]
After more than two decades of service, the Founding Rector of the European Humanities University (EHU) Professor Anatoli Mikhailov has accepted the newly-created position of President of the University. […]
Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich, former leader of the Labour Party and member of ALDE/ADLE Group in the European Parliament, might be in trouble for questionable assistant hiring practices. Fellow Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis, of the PPE Group, on Monday asked the European Parliament to look into the matter, BNS reports. […]
Deputy Minister of Culture Agneta Lobacevskytė took office on Monday. The deputy minister will oversee the matters of ethnic minorities, archives and information society. […]
The third rotation of troops from the United States Army in Europe’s 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade were seen off at a formal ceremony held at Rukla garrison last Wednesday. After nearly two months of combined combat training, it will be replaced by the 2nd Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, stationed in Texas, U.S.A., that will continue the joint training with Lithuanian forces, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Russian courts could get the green light to seize foreign assets on Russian territory under a draft law intended as a response to Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, The Moscow Times reports. […]
Russia‘s Energy Minister Alexander Novak has told a German newspaper that European countries cannot re-export Russian gas to Ukraine due to contract reasons, and hinted those that do could face gas cuts, Reuters reports. […]
Lithuania’s delegation led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Neris Germanas participated in the events of the 27th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 22-24 September. During the visit, particular attention was given to the human rights and humanitarian situation in Ukraine, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has expressed deepest condolences over the brutal murder of a French citizen by terrorists, emphasizing that such brutal crimes cannot undermine the determination to fight terrorism. […]
The European Union‘s decision to give Ukraine more time to fully implement a trade pact to assuage Russian pressure is a potentially dangerous step that leaves the gates open for Moscow to press for major changes to the deal, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius told The Wall Street Journal. […]
On 23-24 September NATO’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) General Adrian Bradshaw paid a visit to the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania. […]
What Russia is doing in Ukraine is no different from terrorist activities seen in Iraq and Syria, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė tells The Washington Post. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė was elected the Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders at its meeting in New York. The Council, established in 1996, is a network of influential women leaders of the world. The Lithuanian president became its member in 2009, the presidential press service said. […]
Nominations were made on Tuesday for the European Parliament’s 2014 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Among them is the Ukrainian EuroMaidan movement, which led to the overthrow of the regime of Viktor Yanukovych, Euractiv reports. […]
A Lithuanian-led group who trained helicopter pilots and helicopter technical maintenance personnel of the Afghan National Army has finished their mission. […]
The Prosecutor General’s Office has confirmed the detention of Dmitry Konoplianik, official of the Belarusian Interrogations Committee. […]
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