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Lithuania drops 6 places on Corruption Perception Index
Lithuania dropped six places on the Corruption Perception Index last year, Transparency International non-governmental organization said on Wednesday. […]
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Seimas speaker disagrees with LPGU leader’s words on “Govt destruction”
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis says he disagrees with the words by Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) that delegated him to the post, about the story of MP Greta Kildišienė being an attempt to destroy the administration. […]
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Seimas speaker to sack official ethics chief
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis of the ruling Peasant and Green Union has pledged to initiate sacking Romas Valentukevičius from the post of the head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission. […]
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Court sentences ex-OMON officer to 12 yrs for war crimes
The Lithuanian Court of Appeals on Tuesday found former OMON officer Vladimir Razvodov guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, sentencing him to 12 years in penitentiary. […]
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Ethics chief refuses to step down
Romas Valentukevičius refuses to resign as chairman of the Chief Official Ethics Commission (COEC). […]
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Vilnius vice-mayor Paluckas to run for SocDem Party leader
Vilnius Vice-Mayor Gintautas Paluckas confirmed on Tuesday his intention to run for the post of leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP). […]
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Karbauskis sees MP scandal as 1st serious attempt to undermine Government
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), sees a recent scandal surrounding LPGU MP Greta Kildišienė as “the first serious attempt to undermine the government that has been elected by people”. […]
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Weather conditions in Vilnius delay German troops’ arrival
Weather conditions in Vilnius on Monday delayed the arrival of the first group of German troops to be deployed in Lithuania as part of NATO’s multinational battalion. […]
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Embattled MP Kildišienė asks election body to revoke mandate
MP Greta Kildišienė of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union on Monday submitted a plea to the Central Electoral Committee, asking to revoke her mandate. […]
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Kildišienė to resign as MP amid car lease scandal
Greta Kildišienė is resigning as member of the Lithuanian parliament, Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), told BNS on Friday. […]
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Lithuania’s official ethics chief vows to step down
Romas Valentukevičius said on Friday that he would resign as head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission. […]
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Lithuania’s tax chief sacked
Lithuanian Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka has sacked Dainoras Bradauskas, head of the State Tax Inspectorate (STI), after a commission set up by the ministry recommended firing him for corrupt activities and gross official misconduct. […]
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Seimas speaker urges chief official ethics watchdog to resign
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis on Friday urged Romas Valentukevičius, the head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission, to resign. […]
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President – Car lease story starting to discredit ‘Peasants’
The automobile leasing story is starting to discredit the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
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Higher education, not specific universities should to be left in Lithuania’s regions
High-quality higher education should continue to be available in Lithuania’s regions, but that does not necessarily mean keeping the existing inefficient higher education institutions intact, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Thursday. […]
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MP makes headlines for using car owned by LPGU leader’s company
Greta Kildišienė, a lawmaker of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), has made the headlines after it emerged that she was using a car owned by a company of Ramūnas Karbauskis, the party’s leader. […]
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Prosecutors asks Seimas to strip 2 MPs of legal immunity
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office has asked the Seimas to lift the legal immunity of two lawmakers — Mantas Adomėnas of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and Naglis Puteikis, a member of the Peasant and Green Union’s political group in the parliament — in separate defamation cases. […]
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Vilnius court still expects Gorbachev to testify in 1991 crackdown trial
The Vilnius Regional Court has sent three summons to former Soviet leader Gorbachev asking him to testify as a witness in a mass trial related to the bloody events of January 13, 1991 in Vilnius. […]
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Adamkus, Landsbergis receive Freedom Prizes
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-independence leader, and former President Valdas Adamkus were presented with the Freedom Prizes on Friday as the country marks the 26th anniversary of a bloody 1991 Soviet crackdown on its independence drive. […]