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Economy

Real estate firm Citus merging with RE/MAX Lietuva

The real estate agency Citus is merging with RE/MAX Lietuva to form the biggest real estate firm in Lithuania with over 220 agents. […]

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Economy

Maxima shareholder blocks sale of stake

Julius Numavičius, a shareholder of Vilniaus Prekyba group which owns Lithuania’s biggest supermarket chain Maxima, has asked a court to block another shareholder, Žilvinas Marcinkevičius, from selling his stake in the company. […]

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Politics

ECHR report criticises Lithuania over poor prison conditions, gender reassignment and Paksas

A report by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) criticizes Lithuania for failing to improve living conditions in the country’s prisons, legislate gender reassignment and pass legislation allowing the impeached former president Rolandas Paksas to run for office. […]

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CORPORATE

‘There is no institution like the Vatican in Islam that can excommunicate extremist Muslims’

There were some 13 million Muslims living in Europe several years ago, according to Pew Research Center, and several more million have come from Syria and Iraq over the last few years. Professor Egdūnas Račius of the Kaunas-based Vytautas Magnus University says that religion is not always the right lens through which to look at and make sense of the world’s Muslims. […]

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Global LT

Lithuanian ballet dancer wins big in Canada

Jurgita Dronina’s performance with the National Ballet of Canada as Hermione in The Winter’s Tale (by choreographer Christopher Peter Wheeldon) earned her the Best Ballet Performance of 2015 award in the MyTheatre Awards. […]