The war on Ukraine and the increasingly frequent reports about the possibility of Russian aggression in the Baltic states has not led to mass purchase of firearms by Lithuanians, the growth remains stable and in accordance to the tendencies of the past years, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
Seventy-nine percent of people in Lithuania still say they oppose legislation instituting same-sex partnership. But the number of those in support has doubled over the last year to 15 percent, a survey has revealed on Thursday. […]
Lithuania’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the country has not yet faced the phenomenon of foreign fighters and has no reports of a single Lithuanian citizen fighting on the side of terrorists. Nevertheless, in his words, Lithuania takes the threat very seriously and understands that well-trained and radical fighters, including citizens of the European Union (EU), returning from zones of armed conflicts may end up in Lithuania. […]
Statistics Lithuania announced that Lithuanians visited doctors on average 8.1 times in 2013, while the total number of visits stood at 24 million. […]
Rights awareness among Lithuania’s consumers and businesses is improving, justice minister has said, adding that consolidation of three public authorities this year will provide additional impetus for progress in this area. […]
On 15-16 February, President Dalia Grybauskaitė will be attending events marking the Day of Restoration of the State of Lithuania. […]
The number of marriages registered in Lithuania in 2014 went up by 1,500 from the year before, with more couples deciding to wed outside civil registry offices, shows statistics published by the Justice Ministry on the eve of Valentine’s Day. […]
Vladimir Antonov, former shareholder of Lithuania’s bankrupt bank Snoras, on Wednesday skipped a hearing of his extradition case at the High Court in London. […]
Visaginas has undergone a radical transition from rapid growth under Soviet planning and mono-functional industrial development to dramatic shrinkage under a multilateral and multi-scalar competitive determination of resources and workplaces. […]
Lithuania has risen in the annual World Press Freedom Index by one notch to the 31st position among 180 countries. […]
According to a Eurobarometer survey, 85 percent of internet users in the European Union believe that the risk of becoming a victim of cybercrime is growing (a 9-percent increase compared with the survey from 2013). […]
Ronaldas Račinskas, the head of the International Commission for the Evaluation of Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, approves of the ideas of Polish politicians when they say that events marking the end of World War II hostilities should take place in other European capitals and not in Moscow. He says that Russia continues to justify its actions with categories from World War II. […]
Norway‘s Ambassador to Lithuania Dag Malmer Halvorsen says that children are rarely taken from their Lithuanian families in Norway. […]
Seven Ukrainian children from the war-ridden areas of Luhansk and Donetsk accompanied by a teacher should come to Lithuania later in February to finish the academic year here, the Lithuanian government said in the cover letter of a resolution. […]
Scholars will discuss the consequences of the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979–1989 from a transnational perspective, especially in terms of strategies for (re)integrating veterans during a two-day workshop at the European Humanities University. On February 12 at 5 PM they present their research in a round table at Vilnius University´s History Faculty. […]
The national television news service announced that the Ministry of the Interior of Lithuania has promised to ascertain who and for what reason issued a residence permit to Akhmed Yevloyev, a Russian citizen who is alleged to be a high-ranking crime lord. […]
Akhmed Yevloyev, a high-ranking Russian criminal known as a “vor v zakone,” or “thief in law”, has been issued with a residence permit by the Migration Board of the Vilnius County Police Headquarters, a spokesman for Lithuanian Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis confirmed to BNS on Saturday. […]
The existing ban on the use of right hand drive cars in Lithuania runs counter to the country’s Constitution, the Constitutional Court of Lithuania ruled on Friday. […]
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