The Seimas has adopted the Law on Family Card and amendments to the Law on Local Self-Government, thus introducing the family card into the national system as from 1 July 2019. A total of 110 MPs voted in favour of the Law, with 1 MP voting against and 4 abstaining, a Seimas press release states. […]
An employee of the Vilnius City Administration on Wednesday was acquitted of charges of inciting hatred against Russians in his online comments. […]
The Lithuanian government has decided to declare a nationwide state of emergency due to a prolonged drought to allow farmers who get EU support to avoid sanctions and to facilitate negotiations with buyers of their products. […]
The European Business Network (EBN) presented on Thursday as part of their monthly breakfast presentation ‘Work and employment of persons with disabilities’ in Vilnius. The minister of Social Security Linas Kukuraitis, himself a former Lecturer of Social Work at Vilnius University was the keynote speaker. Jonas Ruškus, Professor at Vytautas Magnus University, a specialist in employment for disabled people and a member of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the United Nations spoke about the situation of disabled people in Lithuania, the challenges and the progress made so far. […]
The Commission for Coordination of Affairs of Lithuanians Living Abroad is meeting on Tuesday for the first time in two years. […]
Prisoners from Lukiškės Prison in central Vilnius will be moved to other correctional facilities in three or four years, Lithuanian Justice Minister Elvinas Jankevičius says. […]
Nongovernmental organization Transparency International is opening its traditional transparency school in Vilnius on Monday. […]
A database failure on Thursday caused queues of vehicles to form at Lithuania’s border checkpoints, the State Border Guard Service said on Friday. […]
The construction of the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania on the site of the original palace in the capital’s lower castle complex has been completed 15 years after it was started. […]
MG Baltic Media, a media and telecoms group indirectly owned by Lithuanian businessman Darius Mockus, last year saw its consolidated revenue drop to 57.871 million euros, down 12.1 percent from 65.858 million euros in 2016. […]
Summer is the time when the kitchen is filled with different types of fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, these foods can often only be enjoyed for a relatively short time – just a day or two. The fruits and vegetables that are not properly stored spoil. Vilma Juodkazienė, food expert at retail chain IKI, says that in order to keep fruits and vegetables fresh longer, it would be best to follow a few simple rules as well as to know what foods can be stored together and which should be separated. […]
The Klaipėda regional court on Wednesday sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for organizing a large cocaine shipment from Chile to Lithuania. […]
1,000 teachers have been trained to provide sexuality education in Lithuanian schools, Vice Minister of Education and Science Gražvydas Kazakevičius says. […]
Lithuania’s parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense is in favor of granting the Baltic religious society Romuva state recognition after it was ruled that the society poses no threat to national security. […]
A man suspected of having dug out a memorial time-capsule in Lukiškės Square in central Vilnius probably did so out of national hatred, police officers say. […]
Vladimir Romanov, the key owner of the collapsed Lithuanian bank Ūkio Bankas, currently hiding in Russia, will stand trial in absentia in Lithuania. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is looking for new diplomats. A new competition to the diplomatic service was opened following a break of several years, the Lietuvos Žinios daily writes. […]
Police said on Tuesday they have found a time-capsule that was on Monday dug up from the place in Vilnius’ central Lukiškių Square where a memorial to freedom fighters is to be set up. […]
A clay pot with 350 coins dating back to the time of Sigismund II Augustus was unearthed on Monday by workers renovating Laisves Alėja, the main pedestrian street in downtown Kaunas, a news website reported. […]
Axis Industries, the winner of the tender for the construction and concession of a national stadium in Vilnius, and its partners agree to fund the construction and not to demand advance payment. […]
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