Virginija Baltraitienė
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Government to discuss support for dairy farmers facing crisis

Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė is to discuss potential support for the dairy sector together with the division chairmen of the Lithuanian Farmers’ Union. The discussions will primarily focus on financial support for dairy producers, […]

Valentinas Mazuronis
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MEP Mazuronis to stand for Labour Party in elections

Labour Party chairman and MEP Valentinas Mazuronis on Saturday announced his intention to participate in the parliamentary elections and lead the party‘s list in the multi member constituencies. “I understand that the chairman of the […]

Andrius Kubilius and Algirdas Butkevičius
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Butkevičius accuses former Lithuanian prime minister of impoverishing middle class

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius used the occasion of the launch of the government’s annual report to accuse former Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, former leader and the head of the Christian Democrats – Homeland Union […]

Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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Witchcraft, holy trees and Lithuania’s last pagans

Lithuanians, the last pagans of Europe, took their time to fully embrace Christianity in their daily lives and mixed it with older pagan rites. The religious sensibilities of Lithuanian peasants in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries is a topic of a new study by historian Vytautas Ališauskas. […]