Nerijus Numavičius, Darius Mockus, Žilvinas Marcinkevičius
Society

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. […]

Tautiška giesmė pasklido po pasaulį
Society

Historian Nikžentaitis: Singing Lithuania’s national anthem across the globe is good basis for establishing dual citizenship

Lithuania knows the exact day when it became part of Europe. That was on 6 July 1253, when Duke Mindaugas, shortly after having accepted baptism, was crowned by the Pope of Rome the king of still largely pagan lands. The 6 of July is now celebrated as Lithuania’s Statehood Day and although its a holiday of recent vintage (it was not observed before the 1990s), it already involves a tradition. Each 6 July, Lithuanians in the country and abroad join in the singing of the national anthem. […]

Raimondas Baranauskas, Vladimir Antonov
Society

Britain issues arrest warrants for former Snoras owners Antonov and Baranauskas

Great Britain has issued arrest warrants for former owners of Snoras bank Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas who went missing after losing their fight against extradition to face fraud charges in Lithuania, Bloomberg reports. […]

Vladimir Antonov, Raimondas Baranauskas
Society

Wanted former owners of bank Snoras disappear in UK

British officers are no longer able to find former Snoras Bank shareholders Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas who have to be extradited to Lithuania, the Baltic country’s Prosecutor General‘s Office said on Friday. […]

Society

Former Soviet police officer sentenced for deporting civilians from Lithuania

Vilnius Regional Court on Tuesday sentenced a former Soviet police (militia) officer to five years in prison for the deportation of civilians during the Soviet times. […]

Lenkų futbolo aistruoliai Liepojoje
Society

Lithuanian police prevent mass brawl between Polish and Russian football hooligans

Lithuanian police on Sunday prevented a mass brawl between Polish and Russian football hooligans. […]