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Lithuanians trust police and army more, banks less
Public trust in the police and army in Lithuania is growing, but the number of people who trust banks is down, according to a new survey published on Saturday. […]
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Mission Siberia participants seen off to Russia
Participants of the 16th annual initiative Mission Siberia were on Friday seen off to the Russian region of Tomsk. […]
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Lithuania first in Europe to fine people for selling energy drinks to minors
Lithuania’s police have registered 11 violations over nine months since Lithuania became the first country in the European Union to ban sale of energy drinks to minors. […]
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Lithuanians go to Grunwald for Battle of Žalgiris commemoration
A Lithuanian delegation has left for Grunwald, Poland, to attend the 605th anniversary of the Battle of Žalgiris (also known as the Battle of Grunwald), Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Friday. […]
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Non-EU citizen cannot stay in Ireland after marriage to Lithuanian ends, EU court rules
A non-EU citizen cannot stay in Ireland after his marriage to a Lithuanian citizen has ended, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. […]
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Medium speed cameras installed in Lithuania
Lithuania’s police have started installing speed cameras that record a vehicle’s medium speed in a certain section, rather than its instant speed. […]
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U-turn on excavation of WWII mass grave found in Šiauliai
The authorities in Lithuania’s northern city of Šiauliai have decided against excavating remains from a recently discovered World War Two mass burial site due to concerns from the Jewish community. […]
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Brussels backs Lithuania over Russian TV channel ban
The European Commission has acknowledged that the measures Lithuania took against Russian-language TV channel RTR Planeta were well-founded as its programmes incited to hatred. […]
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Broadcast ban on Russian channel expires
The three-month ban to rebroadcast the Russian-language TV channel RTR Planeta in Lithuania has expired. […]
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Lithuania’s population shrank in 2014
On 1 January 2015, the population of the European Union was estimated at 508.2 million, compared with 506.9 million on 1 January 2014. During the year 2014, 5.1 million babies were born in the EU, while 4.9 million persons died, meaning that the EU recorded a positive natural change of its population of 0.2 million, double that of 2013. The remainder of the change is driven mainly by net migration, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union said. […]
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Only 3 municipalities in Lithuania provide all social services to elderly
The number of older people in Lithuania is rising (in 1990, pensioners represented 19 percent of the total population, in 2014 – 22.4 percent), the need for social services is increasing, however the supply of services remains poor and hardly accessible, the National Audit Office says. […]
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Future leaders of Africa met at International Summer School at MRU
Tomorrow’s leaders of Africa met all this week at the Transparency International (TI) Summer School held on the campus of Mykolas Romeris University. […]
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Telšiai mayor dies in car accident
Vytautas Kleiva, mayor of Lithuania’s western town Telšiai, was killed in a car accident on Friday. […]
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Top ten of Lithuania’s richest people
Nerijus Numavičius, chairman of the management board at VP Grupė which owns grocery store chain Maxima, remains the richest person in Lithuania with estimated assets of 1.3 billion euros, according to a list of the country’s wealthiest people published by the IQ magazine. […]