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Lithuanian parliament supports Jauniškis’ appointment as security chief

April 9, 2015 BNS 0

The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday backed the bid to appoint Colonel Darius Jauniškis as the chief of the State Security Department. […]

Candidate to head State Security Department says it must assume leadership in preventing threats

April 7, 2015 BNS 0

The Lithuanian State Security Department should take a leading role in preventing threats, says Colonel Darius Jauniškis who has been proposed to head the institution. […]

Lithuanian parliament starts debating law amendments on conscription

April 7, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The Seimas of Lithuania has started deliberating upon amendments to the Law on Military Conscription and the Law on National Defence System Organisation and Military Service. […]

MP Mazuronis joins Liberal Movement political group

April 7, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Member of Parliament Andrius Mazuronis on Tuesday officially joined the Liberal Movement group in the Seimas, Lithuanian parliament, which now has 12 members. […]

Darius Jauniškis (centre), President Dalia Grybauskaitė, PM Algirdas Butkevičius

Army officer proposed as Lithuania’s new security chief

April 7, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has proposed to appoint officer Darius Jauniškis, the current head of the Army’s Special Operations Force, as the new head of the State Security Department. […]

Juozas Olekas, Algirdas Butkevičius ir Algirdas Sysas

Lithuania’s social democrats already preparing for 2016 elections

April 6, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) has started preparing for parliamentary elections that are bound to take place in 2016. The party approved the list of candidates in single-member constituencies. […]

Mykolas Majauskas, Remigijus Šimašius and Gintautas Paluckas after signing agreement on Vilnius City Council's ruling coalition

Vilnius’ ruling coalition agreement signed

March 31, 2015 ELTA EN 0

On Tuesday, an agreement on Vilnius City Council’s ruling coalition was signed. […]

President’s Office sees KGB scam as another provocation

March 31, 2015 BNS EN 0

The office of Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė have dismissed as “yet another information provocation” the hacker attack of the website publishing KGB activities, where the hackers uploaded a Soviet-era file on Grybauskaitė. […]

Bradauskas becomes Head of Lithuania’s State Tax Inspectorate

March 31, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Dainoras Bradauskas has won the Monday’s tender to head the State Tax Inspectorate under the Ministry of Finance (VMI). A total of 5 candidates participated in the competition, even though 11 had registered to take part. […]

Court rules that it is not necessary to question Grybauskaitė

March 30, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Vilnius County Court on Monday rejected the prosecution’s request to question President Dalia Grybauskaitė in the criminal case of Chief Presidential Advisor Daiva Ulbinaitė. The chief advisor was acquitted from charges of revealing a state secret and abuse of office. […]

Remigijaus Šimašiaus political advertising

Liberal Movement climbs to 2nd place of popularity ladder after Social Democrats

March 30, 2015 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian Liberal Movement has ranked as the country’s second party in terms of popularity after the Social Democratic Party, shows a poll published by delfi.lt news portal. […]

10 Lithuanian MPs elected to local councils to stay in Seimas

March 29, 2015 BNS EN 0

Ten Lithuanian members of the Lithuanian Seimas, elected to local councils in the recent local elections, will stay in the parliament. […]

Lithuanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė

Lithuanian UN rep expresses concern about Christian situation in Middle East

March 28, 2015 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė expressed concern during the recent UN Security Council debate on the situation of Christians in the Middle East. […]

Social Democrats call election “ok”, worried about major cities

March 28, 2015 BNS EN 0

The ruling Social Democratic Party of Lithuania say the recent local elections were good but the party is concerned about the situation in major cities where it lost around 9,000 votes, compared to the previous local poll. […]

5 parties agree on Vilnius ruling coalition

March 27, 2015 BNS EN 0

Five political parties have agreed on a ruling coalition in Vilnius and it will be formed by the Liberal Movement, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the Order and Justice Party and the Lithuanian List party. […]