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PM promises to give media free access to registry data
The Lithuanian government will next week adopt decisions to give media free access to registry data, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Thursday. […]
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Lithuania to change clocks for last time next spring – minister
People in Lithuania will change their clocks for the last time next spring as the country will keep summertime permanently, Transport and Communications Minister Rokas Masiulis said on Wednesday. […]
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Lithuania bans pedestrians from using mobile phones in crosswalks
Pedestrians in Lithuania will be banned from using mobile phones in crosswalks and motorists will have to give way to pedestrians who are about to step into a crosswalk. […]
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Cause, damage of DFDS Seaways ferry’s fire to be clearer on Thursday
The Danish ferry company DFDS Seaways’ ferry Regina Seaways is undergoing inspection in Lithuania’s port of Klaipėda after the fire incident in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday when it was en route from Germany’s Kiel to Klaipėda. […]
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Ship traffic restrictions still in place in Klaipėda due to strong winds
Ship traffic restrictions are still in place in Lithuania’s port of Klaipėda on Wednesday due to bad weather conditions, the port’s spokeswoman Dovilė Ringis said. […]
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Lithuania’s Kaunas to buy 85 new trolleybuses from Poland’s Solaris
Kauno Autobusai (Kaunas Buses), a municipal transport company in Lithuania’s second-largest city of Kaunas, will buy 85 news trolleybuses for 29.4 million euros from Poland’s Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. […]
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Works by Lithuanian designers in homes of world-famous celebrities
Due to their solutions and functionality, works by Lithuanian furniture designers cater for the needs not only of NATO but also of Claudia Schiffer. According to design specialists, we are known worldwide and have a reputation for being among the first to master the latest production technologies and perfectly coordinate aesthetics with functionality, a quality that plays an important role for the modern man, a press release from Litexpo states. […]
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Lithuanian partisan commander Ramanauskas was shot dead in unusual way – experts
An investigation of the remains of Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, a Lithuanian armed anti-Soviet resistance commander, has revealed that he was shot dead in an unusual way, the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre (LGGRTC) said on Tuesday. […]
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Residents of western Lithuania warned about strong winds
Residents of western Lithuanian regions are being warned about strong winds late on Tuesday. […]
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Ferry fire put out, Lithuania sends helicopter, four military ships (Updated)
The fire that on Tuesday broke out on a ferry on route from Germany to Lithuania’s Klaipėda has been put out and there are no reports about people injured during the incident, Lithuania’s Navy says. […]
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335 people on burning ferry in the Baltic Sea
Lithuania‘s Marine Rescue Coordination Centre of the Naval Force received a message that an explosion occurred at the Regine Seaways engine department at 13.40 today. The ferry with some 335 persons is currently in the Russian economic zone and is reported on fire. The ferry was going from Kiel in Germany to Klaipėda in Lithuania. […]
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Derling and Primus establish a new Baltic alliance
Two leading business law firms – Derling in Estonia and Primus, Attorneys at Law, in Lithuania and Latvia – are establishing a new pan-Baltic alliance. From 27 September 2018 the new alliance will operate as DERLING PRIMUS in Estonia and PRIMUS DERLING in Latvia and Lithuania with highly capable team of over 80 lawyers and assistants across 4 offices in all three Baltic countries, a press release from the alliance states. […]
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Social campaign in Lithuania aims to raise awareness of violence against women
The Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson in Lithuania is launching on Tuesday a social campaign to show support for women who report domestic violence. […]
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Lithuanian army’s volunteer to stand trial for counterpart’s GBH
A national defense volunteer of the Lithuanian army’s will stand trial for grievous bodily harm through negligence of his counterpart. The case has been handed over to court in Lithuania’s northern city of Šiauliai, prosecutors say. […]
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Jurbarkas Synagogue Square Memorial to be unveiled in July
The Synagogue Square Memorial, a memorial to communities that co-existed for centuries in Jurbarkas, western Lithuania, will be unveiled in July. […]
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Plungė names street after famous alpinist Rutkevič
The authorities of Lithuania’s northwestern district of Plungė have named a street in the city of Plunge after Vanda Rutkevič, the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. […]
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Lithuania recalls part of ID cards due to unsafe e-signature
ID cards issued in 2009-2012 are being recalled in Lithuania after the integrated e-signatures devices were found to be technologically outdated and potentially unsafe. […]
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Lithuanian officers block attempt to bring almost 3kg of amber into country
Customs officers from the territorial branch in Lithuania’s western port of Klaipėda have detained almost 3 kg of illegally transported processed amber hidden among personal belongings in a car’s double bottom. […]
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Four Vietnamese migrants, their Latvian driver detained in Lithuania
Lithuanian border guards have detained a Latvian national with four illegal migrants from Vietnam aboard his car. […]
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