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Record-low cold reported in Lithuania overnight
This season’s lowest temperatures were reported in Lithuania overnight. […]
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8 suspects in corruption probe at Lithuania’s Santaros Clinic
Suspicions have been brought against eight individuals in the probe into suspected corruption at one of the country’s largest hospitals Santaros Clinic, the Special Investigation Service (STT) said. […]
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Lithuania’s government considers day-care centres in state institutions
Lithuania’s government is considering the possibility of launching day-care centres in state institutions for children of their employees. […]
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Kaunas considering free public transport on state holidays
Administration of the Kaunas City Municipality is considering free public transport in Lithuania’s second-largest city on public holidays. […]
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International Book Fair opens in Vilnius
The four-day Vilnius Book Fair is opening at the exhibition and congress centre Litexpo on Thursday. […]
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Ex-judge Venckienė busted in US (Updated)
Former Lithuanian judge and former MP Neringa Venckienė has been detained in Chicago, the United States, at Lithuania’s request for refusing to obey a court order to hand over her niece to her mother. […]
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Director of major Lithuanian hospital suspended on abuse suspicions
Kęstutis Strupas, director general of Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, one of Lithuania’s major hospitals, has been suspended from his job on suspicions of abuse amid a large-scale corruption probe by law-enforcement bodies, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. […]
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Philip Morris may face fine in Lithuania for advertising electronic smoking device
Global tobacco giant Philip Morris may face a fine in Lithuania for advertising its electronic smoking device IQOS. […]
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Tomkus sells 80 pct stake in Lithuanian news agency ELTA
Vitas Tomkus, the owner of the media group Respublikos Leidiniai, has sold 80 percent of shares in the Lithuanian news agency ELTA. […]
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Monument NKVD staff in southwest Lithuania should be removed – mayor
The monument to the Soviet People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), which has been tainted with Soviet and Nazi symbols, next to Marijampolė should be removed, says Irena Lunskienė, mayor of the city in South-western Lithuania. […]
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Law-enforcement conducting probe into large-scale corruption in Santaros Clinic (Updated)
Lithuanian law-enforcement officials said on Wednesday they they were conducting an investigation into suspected large-scale corruption at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, one of Lithuania’s major hospitals. […]
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Lithuanian academician, ex-Minister of Education Zinkevičius passes away
Academician and former education minister Zigmas Zinkevičius passed away in Lithuania at the age of 93, his son Vytautas Zinkevičius confirmed to lrt.lt news portal. […]
European Union
Dispute on Lithuanian sanctions for Russian TVs moves to EU Court of Justice (Updated)
The Lithuanian government will seek to prove at the EU Court of Justice that the media watchdog’s order for rebroadcasters to move Russian TV channels to their paid packages over violations is in line with EU legislation. […]
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Lithuania’s traffic accident rate up by third in 2018, casualty rate jumps 82 pct – expert
The rate of traffic accidents in Lithuania increased by a third in the first months of 2018 from the year before, while the number of casualties jumped by 82 percent, says Loreta Levulytė, expert of traffic accidents at the Forensic Centre. […]
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Bulgaria’s ex-education minister to be appointed as rector of Vilnius-based EHU
The Vilnius-based European Humanities University ( EHU ), whose students are mostly from Belarus, will get a new rector on March 1 – the post will be taken by Bulgaria’s former education, youth and science minister Sergey Ignatov. […]
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Migration Department pledges online registration for applicants for resident permits
Lithuania’s Migration Department plans to introduce early online registration for temporary residence permits instead of the current live queue. […]
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Temperatures in Lithuania to drop to below -20C this week
Temperatures are forecast to drop to as low as 24 degrees Celsius below zero in some places in Lithuania at the end of this week. […]
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Soviet, Nazi symbols painted on NKVD monument in southern Lithuania
Police have launched a pre-trial investigation to find out who painted Soviet and Nazi symbols on a monument to NKVD agents in a village close to Marijampolė, the administrative centre of south-western Lithuania. […]
History
Search for traces of French POW camp in Lithuania’s Curonian Spit to be launched – daily
The French government has decided to fund, through its embassy to Lithuania, exploratory research in the Curonian Spit’s sand dunes that possibly housed a camp for French prisoners of war in the late 19th century, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Tuesday. […]