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Lithuanian LGBT community to celebrate IDAHOT and Rainbow Days
From the 14th to the 20th of May, the National LGBT* Organization LGL is ready to lead off the dance for Rainbow Days and IDAHOT 2015 and proud to offer a wide agenda of political, social, cultural and artistic events in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda. […]
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Semiotics professor Dario Martinelli: Kaunas is a city with huge potential
Italian musicologist and semiotician, professor Dario Martinelli says that the most beautiful view in Lithuania is at the confluence of the Nemunas and the Neris rivers at Kaunas Santaka park. […]
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Equality watchdog gets complaint over its own anti-violence campaign
Lithuania’s Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson‘s Office has received a complaint over its own social anti-violence campaign “Men for Women” showing men as dogs, pigs and jackasses and calling on men not to use violence against women. […]
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Lithuania’s Russian speakers mark end of WWII at Vilnius cemetery
As Russia marks the victory over Nazi Germany in WWII, several thousand people, mainly Russian-speakers, gathered at Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius to pay tribute to WWII victims and surviving war veterans. […]
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Lithuanian president pays tribute to WWII victims
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday paid tribute to victims of WWII at Paneriai Memorial, stressing the need to preserve peace today. […]
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Lithuania celebrates Europe Day
The 9th of May marks the 65th anniversary of the historical Schuman Declaration. On that day in 1950 in Paris, French Foreign Affairs Minister Robert Schuman proclaimed the idea of supranational community which became the foundation of the European Union as we know it today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
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Lithuania marks end of World War Two
Lithuania marks the end of World War Two on Friday, with the country’s president, prime minister and speaker of the Seimas attending commemorative events. […]
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Lithuania’s intelligence agencies to be granted access to past financial operations
The Lithuanian Seimas adopted amendments to the Law on Intelligence and thus authorised intelligence agencies to receive information from financial companies and institutions as well as other legal persons not only about present financial transactions but about financial operations completed in the past. […]
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Lithuanian government proposes to extend anonymity guarantees for former KGB agents
The Government of Lithuania on Wednesday backed legal amendments under which information about people who voluntarily admitted to have collaborated with the Soviet state security agency, the KGB, would remain classified indefinitely. […]
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Lithuanian prosecutors expect Snoras ex-owners to be extradited soon
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office expects Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, former shareholders of Lithuania’s bankrupt bank Snoras, to be extradited to Lithuania shortly. […]
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London court rules to extradite former Snoras bank owners to Lithuania
Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, former shareholders of Lithuania’s bankrupt bank Snoras, shall be extradited to Lithuania, two judges of the High Court in London have said after hearing the case, the web portal lrytas.lt reports. […]
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President’s office calls for caution in publishing lists of KGB collaborators
Chief advisor to the Lithuanian president on foreign policy, Jovita Neliupšienė, says that the names of people who voluntarily admitted their collaboration with the KGB may be revealed only after the situation is thoroughly analysed. […]
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Russian bikers spotted in Vilnius are not part of Moscow-Berlin march, border service says
Several Russian bikers were spotted in central Vilnius on Monday, sparking speculation that they may be members of the Night Wolves, a nationalist Russian motorcyclist club organizing a road trip from Moscow to Berlin. While a number of members of the club have been stopped and sent back from the Lithuanian border, several Russian bikers were let in. […]
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Lithuania’s ruling parties consider releasing lists of KGB collaborators
The political council of Lithuania’s ruling coalition is discussing the possibility of publishing lists of persons who have admitted their secret collaboration with Soviet security structures. […]
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Occupational diseases 4 times more frequent among Lithuanian men than women
The number of men diagnosed with occupational diseases in Lithuania is four times higher than that of women, the Hygiene Institute said on the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. […]
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PM on Labour Day: Much has to be done to keep our citizens working in Lithuania
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the country still has do do much to lower the number of its citizens seeking employment abroad. […]