Neal Maloney, Author at the Lithuania Tribune

Lithuanian basketball team gets their first win, stomping the Finns!

August 5, 2019 Neal Maloney 0

After losing 78:70 to a tough Spanish team, Lithuanian basketball team bounced back tonight with a vengeance, crushing Finland 80:60 (26:18, 15:13, 26:13, 13:16). While missing most of their heavy artillery against Spain in Pamplona, tonight Lithuania brought out […]

Sabonis Jr. serious about making his own mark in basketball

March 2, 2015 Neal Maloney 0

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing one of the great young prospects for the future in Lithuanian basketball, Domantas Sabonis. […]

80 years after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: Dividing lines in Europe linger on

August 15, 2019 0

On 23 August Europe will mark the European Day of remembrance for the victims of totalitarian regimes and will commemorate 80 years since the notorious non-aggression agreement between the two biggest totalitarian tyrannies of the […]

Extradition of judge Neringa Venckienė who alleges a paedophile ring in Lithuania

August 14, 2019 0

Recent news about a former judge Neringa Venckienė extradition to Lithuania have forced many to recall the now infamous alleged paedophilia case of Garliava, near Kaunas. Back in 2009, N. Venckienė took part in exposing […]

Vytautas Bruveris. The storm from the political scene has also entered the Presidential Palace

August 13, 2019 0

Took away a gunpowder barrel from beneath the nation’s behind. This was the explanation of Vilnius Mayor R. Šimašius for his decision to secretly strip the Nazi administration official and anti-Soviet post-war resistance figure J. […]

Immigration boosts labour force

August 13, 2019 0

Unemployment has shrunk 0.4pp in the second quarter of 2019 but was 0.2pp higher than a year ago – the first annual increase in unemployment since 2010. However, the reasons for the increase in unemployment […]

Saulius Skvernelis, Aurelijus Veryga, Ramūnas Karbauskis

Veryga and Kukuraitis explain themselves to the president: their fate is on the line

August 12, 2019 0

President Gitanas Nausėda has met with several ministers that have been delegated by the “Farmers”. One of the first to be called up was Minister of Healthcare Aurelijus Veryga. He is one of the numbers […]

Average annual inflation remains steady at 2.4%

August 12, 2019 Comments Off

Due to the summer sales, monthly prices have decreased by 0.3% in July, whereas annual inflation remained steady for the sixth month in a row and stood at 2.4%. Prices of goods were 1.9% higher […]