Communities of city burghers created self-governing cities as a result of the city burghers’ struggles with sovereigns for cities’ rights and freedoms at first in Western Europe from the 11th century to the 13th century, and in Central Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries. The self-governing city burgher communities were legally separated from the state and received independence from the noble class. […]
Lithuanian authorities tightened the procedures of issuing business visas in an effort to curb illegal migration in hopes of preventing sham mediation companies, the Interior Ministry said. […]
The Lithuanian University Rectors’ Conference, or LURK, calls for discarding the requirement for higher schools’ rectors to speak the Lithuanian language. […]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday rejected a complaint by the daughter of the late Lithuanian writer Vytautas Petkevičius over her liability for false statements published in her father’s book about the father of Lithuania’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
Temperatures last night dropped below minus 25 degrees Celsius in some places in eastern Lithuania and cold records were broken in the western part of the country. […]
The European Court of Human Rights is to deliver on Tuesday its judgment in a case regarding liability for false statements published in a book by the late writer Vytautas Petkevičius about the father of Lithuania’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
Flu and cold cases in Lithuania have been on the decline for the past two weeks, the Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS said on Monday. […]
Defying a one-year suspension imposed by the Lithuanian media watchdog on RTR Planeta, a part of cable TV operators in the country continue to air a different version of the the Russian-language channel. […]
The Lithuanian Migration Department in Vilnius has on Monday eliminated live queues for foreigners to come and fill out applications for national visas without prior registration. […]
The top executive of the Lithuanian publishing house that translated a book by Russian journalist Galina Sapozhnikova will stand charges for public approval of and denial of Soviet crimes. […]
The record-low temperatures of this winter claimed three lives in Vilnius over the past three days. […]
The number of Lithuanians expecting the next year to be better than the previous one has decline over the past year, with the indicator dropping to the lowest level since 2011, shows the latest Eurobarometer survey. […]
Immigration numbers are setting new records in Lithuania, with the major wave of emigration slightly declining, shows data provided to BNS by Statistics Lithuania. […]
The confidence of the Lithuanian population in the country’s education system is currently at the lowest level over the past two decades, shows a survey by Vilmorus published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
Lithuania’s Migration Department has refused issuing residence permits to around 100 foreigners after cracking a plot for their arrival for sham volunteering. […]
The United States Department of Justice last Friday confirmed detention of Lithuania’s former MP Neringa Venckienė, however, noted that no further detail would be provided. […]
Vilnius University (VU) together with Embassy of Israel in Lithuania started a joined student mentorship program “Kelrodė žvaigždė“ (The Guiding Star). One hundred VU students volunteered to become friends and mentors to 9-12 year old children from needy and socially excluded families, the VU Communications and Marketing Department wrote in a press release […]
Seven people have died of influenza in Lithuania this season and the number of ill pregnant women is on the rise, the National Public Health Centre said. […]
Sugihara Foundation – Diplomats for Life has named Lithuanian writer and playwright Marius Ivaškevičius as the Person of Tolerance of 2017, the Vytautas Magnus University said on Friday. […]
Corruption has been habitually singled out as one of the major afflictions slowing down Lithuania’s development, a problem put down to the country’s Soviet legacy as well as frailty of its young institutions. Jovitas Raškevičius, of the Special Investigation Service (STT), notes that the effort Lithuania has put into fighting corruption is bearing fruit, while Liudas Jurkonis, of EY’s fraud investigation and dispute services, highlights that business companies need to invest more into their own internal control systems. […]
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