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Lithuania marks 24th anniversary of Freedom Defenders’ Day
Lithuania marks the 24th anniversary of the Freedom Defenders’ Day on Tuesday, commemorating victims of the Soviet aggression in 1991. […]
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Vytautas Landsbergis calls for restoring conscript army in Lithuania
Lithuania’s first post-independence leader, signatory to the 11 March Act, former speaker of the Supreme-Council-Reconstituent Seimas, Vytautas Landsbergis, has called for the restoration of conscription in Lithuania in the wake Russia‘s aggression in Ukraine. […]
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January 1991 case expected to reach Lithuanian court this summer
Twenty-four years after the attempted coup of 13 January 1991, parties in the case are studying the materials of the exclusive Lithuanian investigation that concluded in the end of last year. […]
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Lithuanian PM welcomes decision on private kindergartens
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has welcomed the decision of Kaunas District Municipality to support parents whose children attend private kindergartens. The prime minister called the decision “beneficial to young families, the municipality and the state”. […]
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Over 4,300 run in Vilnius to commemorate January 1991 victims
Over 4,300 people on Saturday took part in a traditional run through the streets of Vilnius to pay tribute to the victims of the Soviet army’s bloody attack on unarmed civilians in the Lithuanian capital in January 1991. […]
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Seventeen Ukrainian children come to Vilnius
Seventeen Ukrainian children arrived by coach in Vilnius on Saturday to take part in a support camp organized for them. […]
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Lithuanian population shrinks 0.7 percent in 2014
The population of Lithuania shrank 0.7 percent over 2014, according to Statistics Lithuania, yet the figure represents an improvement since 2005. […]
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Lithuanian court rejects request to suspend Russian channel’s broadcasts
Vilnius Regional Administrative Court on Friday rejected the request by Lithuania’s Radio and Television Commission to halt broadcasting of the Russian-language TV channel Ren TV Baltic’s programs. The commission had asked to suspend broadcasting of programmes produced outside the European Union for 3 months. […]
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Lithuanian mufti: Paris attackers are criminals, not representatives of Muslim community
Romas Jakubauskas, a Lithuanian Musilm mufti, says that Wednesday’s attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo office in Paris was perpetuated by individual criminals who must be made accountable by law. […]
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Lithuanians express solidarity with victims of attack in Paris
After three armed men killed a dozen people at the offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, people around Europe and the world have gathered to spontaneous rallies to express solidarity under the banner #JeSuisCharlie (“I Am Charlie”) and show that attacks on free speech will not be taken lightly. A rally of solidarity was also organized in Vilnius near the Embassy of France (Švarco street 1) Thursday at noon. […]
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Lithuanian TV watchdog to demand that Russian TV channels admit bias
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (RTCL) decided on Wednesday to demand that two Russian TV channels acknowledge that several of their programs spread biased information. Otherwise, the Lithuanian TV and radio watchdog will initiate a complete ban on broadcasting of the two Russian channels in Lithuania. […]
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Lithuanian TV watchdog to suspend Russian TV channel’s broadcasts
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (RTCL) on Wednesday decided to ask court to halt broadcasting of the Russian-language TV channel Ren TV Baltic’s programs produced outside the European Union. […]
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After prison, a will to change is not enough
Having received his release papers from the prison’s management, on an average day of the Baltic autumn Rimantas Muka (31) moved through the gates of Alytus prison in Lithuania. He bought a kebab and a soda at a nearby kiosk. He just stood there and ate, waiting. Muka thought that the autumn morning was wonderful. […]
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First counterfeit notes discovered in Lithuania within less than a week in euro zone
Although Lithuania has been using the euro for less than a week, the police have already reported euro forgery cases. […]
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President Grybauskaitė meets leaders of Lithuania’s Christian communities
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday met with leaders of traditional Christian communities in Lithuania and discussed common work in seeking unity in the country and the world. […]
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Lithuanian media watchdog considers suspending broadcasts of two Russian TV channels
Repeated violations of the law may lead to suspension of rebroadcasting of RTR Planeta and NTV Mir Lithuania channels for up to one year, says Edmundas Vaitekūnas, the head of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission. […]
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Fraudsters trying to exploit Lithuania’s currency transition
Lithuania’s State Tax Inspectorate (VMI) has said that fraudsters pretending to work for the VMI have started visiting residents’ houses, offering a “money inventory” service. […]