The issue of bilingual street signs should finally be settled after years of clashes in eastern Lithuania with large Polish-speaking communities. Municipal authorities have been authorized to erect posts with Lithuanian-language street names, after which the central administration will no longer require to remove bilingual signs off buildings. […]
Senior editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, Polish dissident Adam Michnik, has been nominated for the 2014 Freedom Prize, the Lithuanian parliament said on Friday. […]
Rapidly ageing society means higher prevalence of age-related diseases, such as Parkinson’s. Although there is no treatment for Parkinson’s, early accurate diagnosis can stop its progression, says Arūnas Lukoševičius, head of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Biomedical Engineering Institute. Collaborating with physicians, the University scientists are developing more effective methods for Parkinson’s disease diagnosis. […]
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office has finished the pre-trial investigation into the 13 January massacre case in which 69 people, citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, have been named suspects. […]
The Lithuanian Communications Regulatory Authority (RRT) said on Wednesday that it would not request information on user behaviour on the web from internet service providers. […]
Dmitry Kiselyov, controversian Russian journalist and close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has set his eyes on Lithuania. He has revealed plans to develop a Russian news channel in Vilnius. […]
Lithuania’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld previous court rulings in the criminal case of Chechen spouses Malik and Khadizhat Gatayevs who have been granted asylum in Finland. The pair had been sentenced for minor impairment to health of their former foster daughter. […]
The Lithuanian Government’s Strategic Committee will consider establishing an Ethnic Minority Department that would replace the Ethnic Minority and Emigration Department closed in 2010, a government representatives said on Monday. […]
As many as 4,000 users follow news and views from Lithuania on Facebook. […]
The teachers‘ strike planned in Lithuania this week will include at least 107 educational institutions, with teachers refusing to teach students for the first two periods in schools, pre-school teachers refusing to accept children for two hours and teachers of non-formal institutions refusing to work for the first two hours of work. […]
Espionage charges have been brought against a Lithuanian citizen, the Prosecutor General‘s Office said. […]
Last Tuesday, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Director General Francis Gurry gave a lecture to a packed auditorium of Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) students discussing competition, access to knowledge and the role of libraries in the future. […]
Most Lithuanians (68.5 percent) go to see a doctor only when they are seriously ill. 68 percent of people aged 15-19, 70 percent aged 30-39, and 61 percent aged 60-74 said they have a doctor’s appointment only if seriously ill. The data comes from TNS Atlas survey carried out by market research company TNS LT. […]
In cooperation with law enforcement officers from 16 EU member states, including prosecutors from Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office and criminal police investigators, US officers have shut down an illegal international online trade network. […]
The biggest Facebook’s LIKE symbol will be lit in Lithuania’s southern resort of Druskininkai on Friday and a symbolic capsule will be buried to mark the start of the construction of a cable car. […]
A Vilnius court on Thursday rejected as unfounded an appeal of Russian citizen Alexander Dyukov who asked the court to revoke Lithuanian border guards’ decision to refuse him entry into the country and delete a relevant entry from the Interior Ministry’s national registry. […]
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