Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday that the Health Ministry will have to improve its proposed package of measures to discourage smoking, adding that the government backs a ban on tobacco displays in shops, but it does not see sufficient arguments for plain cigarette packaging. […]
Some 840 young families applied for grants to buy or build their first homes in Lithuanian regions in three days after the scheme was launched on September 1, the Social Security and Labor Ministry said. […]
Professor Virginijus Šikšnys of Vilnius University will receive a prestigious award, the Kavli Prize, for the discovery of a revolutionary tool for DNA editing at a ceremony is Oslo on Tuesday. […]
Lithuanian customs officers have found around 400 boxes with Belarusian-made contraband cigarettes, worth around 620,000 euros, hidden in a shipment of wood pellets on a train from the neighboring country, […]
The Vilnius Prosecutor’s Office has closed a pre-trial investigation into allegations of sexual harassment at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA). […]
Lithuania’s second-biggest city of Kaunas is launching on Monday a week of events to commemorate Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews from the Holocaust during World War Two. […]
The European Commission is expected to table this fall a formal proposal to member states and the European Parliament to stop the biannual clock change. […]
Around 323,600 children will start the new academic year in September, 3,000 fewer than last year. […]
Lithuania’s government hopes the European Union will make the final decision on stopping the biannual time switch this year already. […]
An investigation into alleged differences in quality of same-brand food products in Europe’s eastern and western countries is moving forward, and Brussels has pledged to present its results later this year. […]
Prosecutors in the Lithuanian western port of Klaipėda have launched a pre-trial investigation into alleged air pollution in the port’s surroundings. […]
A tolerance center will be opened in Ukmergė, northeastern Lithuania, in a building having the status of cultural heritage, where a Jewish primary boy school operated before WWII, the Lietuvos Žinios daily writes. […]
Lithuania marks the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of the Soviet army. […]
The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania begins to publish documents on crimes, such as murders, rapes and robberies, committed by the Red Army in Lithuania. […]
In an effort to comply with the European Court of Human Rights‘ judgment, the Lithuanian government proposed on Tuesday that the parliament should define cases when people serving life sentences could become eligible for release from prison. […]
Lithuania’s government will consider a proposal to define cases when people serving life prison sentences might be released. This way the country would implement the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights. […]
Lithuania’s police forces in Vilnius and Kaunas are holding a major exercise on Wednesday to prepare for the upcoming visit of Pope Francis. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Jonas Valančiūnas, playing for the Toronto Raptors, have on Tuesday opened an adolescent day center, called Išvien (Together) established by the basketball player. […]
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Slovenia violated the rights of a Lithuanian sentenced for a bank robbery when it provided a Russian-language, and not a Lithuanian-language, interpreter. […]
Thousands of state-funded places have been left vacant at higher schools in Lithuania after they failed to attract young people to study and become engineers and technologists. […]
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