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. […]
Professor Artūras Žukauskas, head of the Semiconductor Optoelectronics at Vilnius University‘s Institute of Applied Research, has been elected rector of Vilnius University for a five-year term. […]
Around one thousand people attended the nationalist march in central Vilnius on Wednesday, an event that usually sparks controversy over chants “Lithuania for Lithuanians”. […]
Thousands of people took part in a festive parade as Lithuania marked the 25th anniversary of its independence restoration on Wednesday. […]
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has congratulated Lithuania, which is celebrating on Wednesday the 25th anniversary of the restoration of its independence, and called the Baltic country “a success story” for all EU’s Eastern neighbours. […]
As Lithuania marks the 25th anniversary of its independence restoration on Wednesday, President Dalia Grybauskaitė called on Lithuanians to unite in the wake of new threats. […]
The State Commission for the Lithuanian Language suggests allowing non-Lithuanian Latin characters in the spelling of names of Lithuanian citizens, given that there is a recognized source. […]
On Monday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius visited Vilnius Sholom Aleichem ORT Gymnasium and met with its community. The prime minister was shown around the renovated building which will accommodate 350 students as of this September. The Government contributed to the renovation from the State Capital Investment funds. […]
Seventy-eight strikes were organised in Lithuania in November and December 2014. Forty-five of them were warning strikes. According to data of Statistics Lithuania, strikes were staged by pre-school, primary, secondary, sports, recreational and cultural education establishments. […]
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, Statistics Lithuania has published statistical information related to women. […]
The pay gap between men and women in Lithuania was one of the lowest among 28 EU Member States in 2013, data from Eurostat shows. […]
The Belarusian KGB agent, Sergey Kurulenko, who collected information in Lithuania used to live in the Baltic country and even graduated from a school here. His mother and sister also live in Lithuania, it emerged during a hearing of Vilnius Regional Court on Thursday. […]
A total of 97.1 percent of residents of Lithuania have at least one TV set at home, 32 percent have two TV sets, while more than every tenth household in the country has three or more TV sets. 96.8 percent said that they watch TV. […]
Hundreds of Vilnius residents took part in a march in memory of murdered Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, expressing solidarity with people attending an opposition march in Moscow. […]
Elective military education classes should be introduced in Lithuanian schools next year, the country’s Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis says. […]
On 11 March, when Lithuania is celebrating its Independence Day, the Lithuanian Nationalist Youth Union and the Lithuanian Nationalist Centre will hold a march along Vilnius central street from the Cathedral to the parliament building. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that although Lithuania can boast of great results in the area of women’s rights and their active participation, women are still paid less compared to men and are dramatically underrepresented in top positions. […]
In response to informational pressure of the Kremlin-supported media, the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT plans new programs for Russian-speakers in Lithuania and hopes to launch a program focused on explaining sources of propaganda and its methods of working. […]
Lithuanian TV channel TV3 said on Tuesday it had turned to law enforcement over a recent cyber attack that led to the distortion of the results of a TV viewers’ poll on Russian propaganda. […]
Eleven representatives of a pharmaceutical company have been detained in Lithuania’s major cities of Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys under suspicions of bribery, the country’s Special Investigation Service said on Tuesday. […]
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