The traditional informal Snow Meeting and the Vilnius Forum of Intellectuals began on 15 January. At the opening of the Forum, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius stressed the importance of dialogue with the Russian society. […]
On Wednesday, the Committee on European Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Lithuanian Parliament adopted a resolution calling for immediate release of Nadiia Savchenko, Ukrainian military air force pilot, and other Ukrainian citizens illegally held against their will in the Russian Federation, the press service of the Seimas announced. […]
A study commissioned by the Information Society Development Committee under the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania on Lithuanian e-government services revealed that electronic declarations and electronic applications were the most popular form of electronic communication between Lithuanian government agencies and citizens in 2014, the ministry said. […]
On January 14, in Riga, the ministers responsible for energy policy in the three Baltic states signed the Declaration on Energy Security of Supply of the Baltic States, the Ministry of Energy reports. […]
Snow Meeting, a traditional informal discussion club, organised by the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania since 2008, will be held on 15-16 January in Trakai and Vilnius, the ministry said in a press release. […]
In November, the Russian K-550 nuclear ballistic submarine Alexander Nevsky, submerged in the Barents Sea between Russia and the North Pole, successfully launched a missile that travelled its prescribed course to Kamchatka in Russia’s far east. The Alexander Nevsky thus joins two other Russian nuclear submarines, which have, in the course of the autumn, conducted successful ballistic missile tests. […]
A Russian official has criticized suggestions by several European Union nations, including Lithuania, to form a consistent pan-EU effort to counter Russia’s propaganda campaign. […]
On 9 January, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius visited Brussels, where he met with Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director of the European Jewish Association, and Henri Gutman, president of the Jewish Laic Community Centre, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]
On Monday, retired NBA player Žydrūnas Ilgauskas officially lost his Lithuanian citizenship. The decree was signed by Lithuanian Minister of Interior Saulius Skvernelis. […]
State company Klaipėdos Nafta during December 2014 reloaded 640 thousand tonnes of oil products into its storage tanks, greater by 68.4 percent than during December 2013, when 380 thousand tonnes were reloaded. During December 2014 more oil products from the main client of the company Orlen Lietuva as well as from refineries of the Republic of Belarus were reloaded, compared to transhipment during December 2013, also during December 2014 additional heavy oil products from refineries of Russian Federation were reloaded, Klaipėdos Nafta announced. […]
US Republican Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says he will do all he can not only to ensure Washington’s support for Ukraine, but also to avert danger to the Baltic states. […]
Lithuanian asset manager Aivaras Abromavičius was appointed Ukraine‘s economy minister late last year to help save the country from bankruptcy. Is he up for the job, asks Bloomberg columnist Leonid Bershidsky. […]
Lithuania has become the eurozone’s 19th member, but only half of Lithuanians are in favour of the new currency. That will change, Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius told DW, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]
On 8 January in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Philip Hammond. The ministers discussed the European agenda, the implementation of NATO’s decisions, strengthening of security in the region, situation in Ukraine, the Eastern Partnership and relations with Russia. […]
After three armed men killed a dozen people at the offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, people around Europe and the world have gathered to spontaneous rallies to express solidarity under the banner #JeSuisCharlie (“I Am Charlie”) and show that attacks on free speech will not be taken lightly. A rally of solidarity was also organized in Vilnius near the Embassy of France (Švarco street 1) Thursday at noon. […]
On 8 January in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will meet with Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Philip Hammond, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has extended condolences to President of France Francois Hollande over the tragic attack against a Paris-based magazine in which dozens of people were killed. […]
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