Lithuanian Jews have shown support to the Ukrainian Jewish community which is experiencing difficult times. Last week, before the end of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, Lithuanian Jews presented books written by Grigory Kanovich to the Ukrainian Jewish community. […]
On the first working day of 2015, the Migration Board of Vilnius County Police Headquarters received a request from a Lithuanian citizen to have her ethnicity indicated in her passport. The option, which was introduced in a recently adopted law, was exercised by a woman of Ukrainian descent. […]
The Lithuanian Gay League, an LGBT rights NGO, has had an idea to keep some of the 10-litas notes and make them into souvenirs for their partners. […]
Many Lithuanians once sceptical of the euro are now ready to embrace it. Lithuania this night will become the 19th member of the euro zone. […]
For over a year Lithuanians have been able to seek for medical treatment abroad. Nonetheless, people choose to be treated in Lithuania or in neighbouring countries offering similar prices. In one year and two months 53 people sought treatment abroad and submitted compensation applications to Territorial Health Insurance Funds (TLK). […]
The Honorees of the Global Lithuanian Awards 2014 will be announced and awarded at the official ceremony in the Presidential Palace on the 30th of December, 2014. The event will be broadcast live from 4:00 PM on LRT television and the news portal DELFI. […]
Launching of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal that put an end to the monopoly of Russian and re-election of Dalia Grybauskaitė as Lithuania’s president for the second term were the most important events of the year 2014, Lithuanian journalists and editors say. […]
An ad hoc panel has suggested introducing mandatory content licenses for rebroadcasting companies operating in Lithuania that would provide a clearer definition of the content of foreign broadcasts in the country and allow broadcasting Lithuanian channels without any additional requirements. […]
On 23 December, the Government approved the proposal put forward by the Ministry of Education and Science to increase the salaries of the lowest earning teachers – nursery school teachers and pre-primary education teachers. Over LTL 30 million (EUR 8.7 million) was allocated for this. Their salaries will rise by LTL 200 (EUR 58) on average. […]
Supplies bought for the money raised at a Vilnius art auction in December should reach Ukrainian troops by the New Year, the organizers say. […]
With just days left before Christmas and everyone feverishly trying to finish up on their end-of-the-year errands, one is sometimes hard-pressed to find reasons to smile. A Lithuanian photographer has come up with an idea to change that. He has decided to dress up as Santa Claus and take snapshots of people eating their lunch in the central street of Vilnius. […]
Vilnius University has opened a modern laser complex Naglis at the Laser Research Centre, the university said. […]
The United Nations confirmed 18 December as the International Migrants Day. On this day countries are encouraged to discuss migration problems. […]
Lithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court found no legal grounds for court hearing of the Lithuanian Gay League‘s complaint over the conclusion of the Office of the Journalists Ethics Inspector. […]
A camp for children from Eastern Ukraine who have been directly affected by the war will be organized in Vilnius in January. […]
The Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) probe, headed by the Prosecutor General‘s Office, into possible financial crimes committed by the heads and shareholders of bank Snoras has advanced further. […]
Foreign diplomats have donated 24,000 litas (EUR 6,900) to the SOS Children’s Village in Vilnius that fosters nearly 70 children. […]
The National Audit Office of Lithuania has conducted an audit to assess the organisation and implementation of school students’ vocational guidance, the office said in a press release. […]
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