Society
Mission Siberia opens call for applications
The call for applications for this year’s Mission Siberia expedition was launched in Lithuania on Thursday. […]
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Society
Lithuanian project among best ideas to honor victims of totalitarian regimes
The idea generated by Lithuanian architect Mantas Maziliauskas won the third place in an international competition – he proposed building a monument in a Brussels square that would look like rolled up sheet of paper featuring excerpts from letters written by victims. […]
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Lithuanian professor urges colleagues to work together in analysis of independence acts
Vytautas Magnus University professor Liudas Mažylis who discovered the long-sought Lithuanian Independence Act last year is inviting researchers of countries celebrating their centennial anniversaries this year to pool their efforts for analysis of the independence declarations. […]
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Society
Russian content dominates Lietuvos Rytas TV, BTV, while US dominant on LNK, TV3, TV6
Movies, series or programs produced in Russia and the United States were dominant in January among non-European content on the six television channels in Lithuania with the biggest audiences, shows a survey conducted by the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK). […]
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Happy Easter from the Lithuania Tribune!
The Lithuania Tribune team wishes you a happy Easter! […]
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Panel proposes to lift emergency in Lithuania over last year’s heavy rains
The Lithuanian government’s emergency commission proposed on Friday that the Cabinet lift an emergency declaration issued last October due to heavy rains and damage caused to farmers. […]
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Kaunas University of Technology extends deadline for applications for rector’s post
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) has extended the deadline for applications to become its next rector. […]
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Number of people targeted by criminal intelligence in Lithuania down by 10 pct in 2017
The number of people targeted for criminal intelligence collection in Lithuania fell by one-tenth last year compared with 2016, according to statistical figures provided by prosecutors to a parliamentary commission. […]
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Number of Hepatitis A cases triples in Lithuania in 2017 y/y – ULAC
The number of Hepatitis A infections in Lithuania tripled in 2017, as compared with the year before, the Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC) said on Thursday. […]
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Junior entrepreneurs gather for Innovative Business Fair in Kaunas
Kaunas is proud of being one of the host cities and presenting itself as a capital of technologies! It is investing not only in the present but also in the future! The international Student Company Trade Fair “Innovative Business 2018” is being hosted for the third time in Kaunas, gathering the most enterprising students from all of Europe. It is a part of the Junior Achievement (JA) Marketplace events that became an excellent tradition across Europe. […]
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Vilnius’ Gediminas Hill remains in critical but stable state – official
Vilnius’ historic Gediminas Hill remains in a critical but stable state after the winter, with a risk of landslides at the base of the western slope and at a part of the southeastern defensive wall, an official said on Wednesday. […]
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Authorities discuss coordination of search and rescue operations
On 27 March 2018 officials from eleven state institutions gathered at SE Oro Navigacija to discuss actions to be taken in the event of an aircraft accident or an extreme situation in Lithuania. Also analysed at the meeting were lessons learned after international security awareness exercise, a press release from Oro Navigacija states. […]
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Lithuania notifies Russia about suspicions against Snoras’ execs
Lithuanian prosecutors have notified their Russian colleagues about the suspicions brought against Raimondas Baranauskas and Vladimir Antonov, top executives and shareholders of the bankrupt bank Snoras hiding in Russia whom they intend to put on trial in absentia. […]
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Seimas gives green light to appointing Bartkus as STT chief
Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday gave a go-ahead to the appointment of Žydrūnas Bartkus, 42-year-old master of law, to head the Special Investigation Service (STT), the country’s main counter-corruption agency. […]
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EUR 2.9 mln seized in Lithuania in intl money laundering probe
Lithuania’s law-enforcement have cracked a large-scale money laundering scheme and arrested 2.9 million euros transferred from a German company to a bank account in Lithuania. […]
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March for Our Lives in Vilnius
Representatives of Vilnius’s American community, joined by local volunteers, held a “March for Our Lives” at Kudirkas Square on Saturday, March 24. The event was one of more than 820 such events held worldwide, inspired by the student activists from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Forida, where 17 students and teachers were shot dead on February 14, 2018, the organisers of the event wrote. […]
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Syrian priest in Vilnius: we don’t want to be refugees
As Lithuania expresses solidarity with the world’s persecuted Christians, a Syrian Jesuit priest says he has hope that countless refugees will be able to return home and expect not to be persecuted for their religious beliefs. […]
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Few people with undeclared KGB past could be in public service in Lithuania – official
Only a very small number of former KGB agents who have not come forward could be working in the public service, the director of the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre said on Monday. […]
History
The last Sejm of the Commonwealth of the Two Nations in Grodno
The last Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth sat in conference on 17 June – 23 November 1793 under the conditions of Russian occupation. The Sejm was convened at the request of the Empress Catherine II of Russia. […]