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Alcohol found in blood of An-2 pilot
Alcohol has been found in the blood of Adolfas Mačiulis, one of the pilots of the An-2 plane that crashed flying over the Baltic Sea in mid May. […]
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Lithuanian university to award honorary doctorate to Polish president
Lithuania’s Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) will award an honorary doctorate to Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski. […]
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Lithuania grapples with homophobia
Lithuania has recently started discussing its attitudes towards homosexuality, in what remains a novelty for a country ranked among the most homophobic in the EU. […]
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Seventeen Lithuanian students received The Duke of Edinburgh‘s International Awards at British Embassy in Vilnius
The British Embassy in Vilnius hosted an award ceremony to recognize the achievements of the participants of the Duke of Edinburgh International Award. This year, 17 participants of the programme received 15 Bronze and 2 Silver Awards. […]
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Dual citizenship in limbo if referendum in Lithuania fails
A sociological poll has revealed that many people approve of legalising dual citizenship and would vote in favour of the proposal in a referendum. According to political scientist Algis Krupavičius, a referendum on dual citizenship might be successful if the matter was presented as the interest of the state and if numerous parties campaigned together. […]
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Lithuanian football player detained under Germany’s European arrest warrant
Lithuanian football players Tauras Grinius, representing the Rudupis Prienai club, was detained in Kaunas, Lithuania, on Monday night. […]
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Kaunas court evacuated after hoax bomb warning
Kaunas District Court in Lithuania was evacuated on Friday following a bomb warning. It later turned out that the call was a hoax. […]
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Lithuanian prosecutor wants Labour Party’s founder in prison for 6 years
Prosecutor Saulius Verseckas of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office said at the Court of Appeals on Thursday that the Labour Party‘s founder MEP Viktor Uspaskich should be sentenced to six years, while MP Vytautas Gapšys and Marina Liutkevičienė should receive respective conditional sentences of 18 months and one year. […]
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Lithuanian politician’s defence in bookkeeping fraud case: I don’t know how to keep books
Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich, the founder of the Labour Party who is accused of bookkeeping fraud, told a court on Wednesday that he could not be in charge of bookkeeping because he did not understand it and did not even manage his own personal accounts. […]
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4 Iraqi families to be resettled to Lithuania in July
Four Iraqi families that fled persecution in their country will be resettled in Lithuania in early July. […]
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Lithuanian parliament speaker speaks out against same-sex marriage
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she opposes same-sex marriages, giving no clear answer about partnership. […]
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Former president Adamkus discharged from hospital after kidney removal surgery
Lithuania’s former President Valdas Adamkus, 88, was discharged from hospital on Tuesday after undergoing surgery last Thursday for removing one kidney affected by cancer. […]
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Lithuanian equal opportunities watchdog turns to prosecutors over insulting T-shirt
Lithuania’s Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson‘s Office has launched an investigation into the sale of T-shirts allegedly insulting women by one Vilnius shop, and also turned to prosecutors over this incident. […]
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Lithuania’s civil partnership bill to be reviewed by catholic church
Final adjustments to a bill on registered partnership, drafted by the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice, are being made with the Catholic Church, and the document would shortly be submitted to the government for deliberation, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
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Five Lithuanian trade union members under radar after attending training in Moscow
Five representatives of Lithuanian trade unions attended a training in Moscow for over a week, with participation of one covered by the Utena district municipality. […]
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Lithuania commemorates 75 years since beginning of Soviet occupation and mass deportations
Lithuania marks the Mourning and Hope Day on June 14, commemorating the start of the occupation by the Soviet Union in 1940 and the beginning of mass deportations. […]
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Basketball player Valančiūnas stopped by police over window film
Basketball star Jonas Valančiūnas had an encounter with the police of Vilnius, Lithuania, who pulled over the tall man to inspect window tinting on his car. […]
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Human Rights Watch criticizes Lithuanian justice minister’s stance on same-sex partnership
The Lithuanian justice minister’s blanket rejection of a gender neutral bill to allow civil partnerships contravenes European standards, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Justice Minister Juozas Bernatonis released on Thursday. […]
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Media watchdog might ban one more Russian TV channel from Lithuanian airwaves
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania, which recently suspended broadcasts of a Russian TV channel, says it has sufficient evidence on violations by another Russian television to ban it from Lithuanian airwaves. […]