Almost one-third of Lithuanians say they were worse off in 2017 than a year earlier, slightly more than a half say their financial situation did not change last year and only one in ten noted noted an improvement, according to a survey carried out by the pollster RAIT for BNS. […]
The Lithuanian State Tax Inspectorate, or VMI, has taken administrative action against producer and journalist Edmundas Jakilaitis following an inquiry by Agnė Širinskienė, a lawmaker of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU). […]
A court on Thursday handed down prison sentences to ten people who were charged with committing an act of terrorism when they torched seven cars in Marijampolė to intimidate the public and exert pressure on the southwestern Lithuanian town’s law-enforcement officials. […]
Lithuania’s bishops said that meat is allowed on Feb. 16, the 100-year anniversary of Lithuania’s statehood and the Lent Friday, which is traditionally a day of fasting for religious people. […]
Lithuania’s State Tourism Department has suspended the license of Travelonline Baltics after failing to establish whether the tour operator had enough insurance, therefore, the company’s clients will not be able to use the company’s services until the end of the month. […]
Nijolė Sadūnaitė, 79-year-old nun, dissident and Soviet-era political prisoner, was awarded the Freedom Prize on the Day of Freedom Defenders at a solemn ceremony at the parliament on Saturday. […]
More than 150 witnesses have been interviewed in the January 13 attempted coup case in the Vilnius court, the Prosecutor General’s Office said. […]
The Friday’s search for the missing paraglider pilot around the Lithuanian seaside resort of Nida resulted in discovery of the paraglider in the Baltic Sea by officers of the Russian Kaliningrad region. […]
Lithuanian search-and-rescue services are looking for a paraglider pilot who went missing on his way from Vilnius to the seaside resort of Nida, Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation) state-owned air navigation service provider said on Friday morning. […]
Lithuania’s resident population last year declined by 37,800 to 2.810 million, due mostly to emigration and to the number of deaths exceeding that of births, the country’s statistics office said. […]
Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) in launching on Saturday, Jan. 13, a weekend train service between Vilnius and Latvia’s second-biggest city of Daugavpils. […]
On January 11 the General Assembly of Part-Owners (GAPO) and the Governing Board (GB) of the European Humanities University (EHU) submitted an official proposal to the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania for a mutually acceptable roadmap agreement that will allow EHU to continue operations in Vilnius. […]
Lithuania’s Education and Science Ministry says that the studies of the University of Education Sciences (LEU) should be terminated in July, while students of the university should continue their education at the Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) after restructuring. […]
Lithuania’s police is taking unconventional measures to reduce the number of deaths on the country’s roads – handing out funeral candles to pedestrians and drivers who violate traffic rules. […]
The Lithuanian Air Force and the Klaipėda University have agreed to hold a joint expedition for search of airplanes that crashed between World War I and II. […]
Studies abroad reflect the direction of a country’s integration into educational and cultural spheres as well as its degree. The scope of university studies that had grown in Europe in the 17th-18th century was tied to the processes of professionalization and rationalisation, which accompanied the strengthening of the role and bureaucratization of the state. In the Commonwealth, these trends expressed themselves somewhat less which is why the need for experts with a university education was small. […]
Lithuania should formally close a lustration process that was started more than a quarter of a century ago, says Algimantas Urmonas, professor at Mykolas Romeris University who has chaired the country’s Lustration Commission for ten years. […]
The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre says that a register of KGB archival dossiers it has just completed publishing should be viewed with a critical eye. […]
Officers of the Public Safety Service will guard the 1918 Independence Act to be handed over to Lithuania by Germany for exhibiting at the House of Signatories on a temporary basis. […]
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