Viktoras Uspakichas
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Uspaskich – If Karbauskis bickers with Skvernelis, he will ruin Farmers’ group

The Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has become hostage to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and if R. Karbauskis were to bicker against the latter, he will ruin the LVŽS Seimas group, […]

Meet Agnė, short from LRT TV
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Meet Agnė who lives in a Tenerife cave

A regular day for Agnė (36) on Tenerife: binging drinking water from the neighbour, a woman some distance away which means she has to gather her strength and climb a rather steep hill. Until recently Agnė get her food from a charity canteen. The local social workers already know her and always help if they can, LRT.lt writes. […]

Gabrielius Landsbergis, Mykolas Majauskas, Žygimantas Pavilionis, Paulius Saudargas
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Will Gabrielius Landsbergis‘ re-electiion lead to a fracture in TS-LKD?

The majority of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) members supported the young current party Chairman Gabrielius Landsbergis in the chairman elections where he faced off against the Christian Democrat wing Paulius Saudargas […]

Vytautas the Great
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Lithuania sounded like some country out of an American soap opera – historian Rowell

“For the Western reader who has no background knowledge all that seems to be happening is that crazy Belarusians arguing with crazy Lithuanians. The reader sees no difference between the two. . There’s no point in arguing with ‘idiots’ but you can still make your point known without getting angry. In Lithuania they do say however that there are lots of truths and that’s nonsense. The truth is one thing but there are lots of opinions” – that’s what Lithuanian Institute of History scholar Dr. Stephen Rowell says. He together with his colleague Dr. Darius Baronas are were awarded the 2016 Lithuanian Science Prize for their monograph “Lithuania’s Transformation: Pagan Barbarians become Christians of the Late Middle Ages” which has been published in English. […]

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Foreigner employment incentives lead to uproar

On February 8 the government made it easier to employ specialists from third countries in Lithuania, a list of 27 professions in high demand in Lithuania was released. Opponents warn that easily allowing cheap labour […]

Saulius Skvernelis and Ramūnas Karbauskis
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Karbauskis and Skvernelis – whose prospects in politics are better?

Unsuccessful leadership of the cabinet would also be a fiasco for Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis as a politician in general, thus he has far more at stake than “Peasant” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis. The latter, according […]