The number of asylum applicants in Lithuanian last year stood at 440, a 10 percent increase from 2013 with 400 applications. The applicants in Lithuania in 2014 accounted for 0.1 percent asylum seekers in the European Union in total, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, reports. […]
The level of emigration has dropped slightly in Lithuania and more Lithuanians return home, according to the latest figures published by the Statistics Lithuania on Friday. […]
Following false threat about a bomb placed at Vilnius International Airport received on 19 March, Lithuanian airports have started estimating financial damages they suffered as well as airlines and all companies operating in the airport. The damage claim will be forwarded to the author of the false threat. […]
On Friday, a partial solar eclipse was visible in Lithuania. […]
Lithuanian law-enforcement officers on Thursday conducted searches in homes of several individuals in the framework of an investigation into operations of anti-Constitutional groups, the Police Department’s spokesman Ramūnas Matonis confirmed to BNS. […]
Travellers and prominent public figures intend to organize a three-year trip around the globe as a way to celebrate 100 years since Lithuania restored independence in 1918. […]
The Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights has produced a powerful video ad that highlights racist abuse online. The video, which was posted on social networks on Monday, has had almost 300,000 views on YouTube in one day. […]
The Lithuanian Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson is investigating a complaint filed by a man from Šiauliai who was not allowed to enter a Chippendales show. […]
Prosecutor Gintas Ivanauskas of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office wants to question the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė in the case of her spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė who is accused of having leaked classified information. […]
Vilnius mayor-elect Remigijus Šimašius says he sees no problems with allowing LGBt pride events to be held in the centre of the Lithuanian capital, something that has provoked legal clashes in earlier years. […]
Remigijus Šimašius, the Liberal Movement’s candidate elected for Vilnius mayor on Sunday, says that the Soviet-era sculptures should be removed from the Green Bridge of the Lithuanian capital due to their emergency condition. […]
The Access MBA Tour – a leading international business education fair – will take place in Vilnius for the first time on 18 March at Kempinski Hotel Cathedral Square, the organiser Advent Group has announced. […]
Religious communities and sects present in Lithuania are not dangerous, Justice Minister Juozas Bernatonis said. […]
Lithuanian customs officers have found smuggled cigarettes inside a car belonging to a foreign embassy in Lithuania, the Lithuanian Customs said on Friday. […]
Lithuania’s police has opened three pre-trial investigations over the past few days into possible violations during in run-off voting in mayoral elections. […]
Lithuania’s Interior Ministry has turned to the Prosecutor General‘s Office over the ministry’s two public procurement contracts related to IT services. […]
Lithuania’s government distributed nearly 640,000 euros among the country’s traditional religious communities. […]
The first lesson of national security will be held in schools across Lithuania on Friday. […]
A Kaunas court on Thursday found former Soviet security officer Stanislovas Drelingas guilty of genocide and sentenced him to five years in prison for participating in a 1956 operation to detain Lithuanian guerrilla leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. […]
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