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Interior minister proposes new method to fight drink driving
Lithuania’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis proposed to raise civil insurance rates for car owners who have been caught driving under the influence of alcohol. […]
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Should Lithuania change its name for better marketing?
Many a travelling Lithuanian at one time or another had the following conversation: “Where are you from?” – “Lithuania.” – “Where? Ukrainia?” – “No, Lithuania. It’s a Baltic state, next to Latvia and Estonia.” – “(somewhat unconvinced) All right…” […]
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Four Lithuanian universities pooling resources
Four Lithuanian universities – Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Klaipėda University, Šiauliai University and the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences in Vilnius – have agreed pool their resources and allow students to use facilities in either institution. […]
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Study reveals Lithuanians’ ambivalence towards corruption
Professor Aistė Diržytė, head of the Psychological Well-Being Research Laboratory, was somewhat surprised by her own research results on corruption. […]
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President Grybauskaitė meets with director general of CERN
On 27 October, Tuesday, President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Director General of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer and President of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Professor Valdemaras Razumas. The meeting discussed the contribution of Lithuanian scientists to the most significant discoveries and experiments in the world as well as further cooperation between Lithuanian scientists and CERN. […]
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Lithuanian minister on Russian army choir concert: No place for Moscow’s divisive policies
Lithuanian Minister of Culture Šarūnas Birutis has commented on the decision of Visaginas Culture Centre to cancel a performance by the Alexander Ensemble, the official army choir of the Russian armed forces, saying that there is no place in Lithuania for Moscow’s divisive policies. […]
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Less scepticism about situation in Lithuania
Four percent fewer people think the situation in Lithuania is bad, compared to survey results from last year, although scepticism grew 3 percent from the previous month. According to a survey this September, 34% of adult respondents thought that the situation in Lithuania was getting better, while 65% said that situation was getting worse. […]
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Lithuanian parliament adopts amendments to prevent sexual offences against children
At its plenary sitting, the Seimas of Lithuania has adopted the amendments to the Law on Fundamentals of Protection of the Rights of the Child, aimed at preventing sexual offences against children. […]
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Minister says Lithuania should introduce “zero per mille” alcohol limit for all drivers
Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis says in the long-run Lithuania will have to reinstate the rules requiring drivers to be completely sober. […]
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Vilnius University in top 20 of regional QS World University Ranking
QS World University Rankings has published a list of the best universities in the region of Emerging Europe and Central Asia. Vilnius University (VU) jumped up by 13 ranking positions and made it to the top 20, ranking in the 19th place, the university reports. […]
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Lithuanian LGBT community secures permit for pride march in Vilnius
The Lithuanian Gay League (LGL), an LGBT rights organization, has announced that Baltic Pride 2016 will take place in Vilnius in June, with the main events – the pride march followed by a concert – planned in central locations of the Lithuanian capital. […]
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Soviet killings of Lithuanian partisans not a genocide, ECHR rules
There is no basis for equating post-war Soviet persecution of partisans in Lithuania with genocide, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. […]
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Barbershop in Vilnius that prefers to employ refugees
As Lithuania is drafting plans how to integrate refugees from the Middle East that the country has agreed to accept, with some expressing doubts about opportunities for them to find jobs in the relatively closed and ethnically homogeneous country, there is one business in Vilnius that exclusively employs foreigners, many of them refugees from the Middle East. […]
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Commission to ‘promote’ Lithuania among refugees
An interdepartmental commission, set up in Lithuania to oversee resettlement and integration of refugees, is putting together a plan how to promote the country among asylum seekers. Lithuania has pledged to resettle 1,105 refugees as part of an EU effort to ease the refugee crisis and will seek that the asylum seekers come to the country willingly. […]
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