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. […]
This season’s lowest temperatures were reported in Lithuania overnight. […]
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. […]
Lithuania’s government is considering the possibility of launching day-care centres in state institutions for children of their employees. […]
Administration of the Kaunas City Municipality is considering free public transport in Lithuania’s second-largest city on public holidays. […]
The four-day Vilnius Book Fair is opening at the exhibition and congress centre Litexpo on Thursday. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Global tobacco giant Philip Morris may face a fine in Lithuania for advertising its electronic smoking device IQOS. […]
Vitas Tomkus, the owner of the media group Respublikos Leidiniai, has sold 80 percent of shares in the Lithuanian news agency ELTA. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Lithuania’s Migration Department plans to introduce early online registration for temporary residence permits instead of the current live queue. […]
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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