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. […]
Prominent Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis was recruited as a KGB agent during the soviet rule, the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre said. […]
Police of the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda are investigating circumstances of the death of an Irish citizen who died in hospital on Thursday after being discovered wandering the streets in early hours of the day. […]
Issuing of national visas is again delayed at Lithuania’s Migration Department. […]
Lithuanian officials plan to draw up a rescue plan for the Vilnius-based European Humanities University (EHU), which is on the brink of closure after getting a repeated negative evaluation from experts. […]
The Vilnius Regional Court ruled on Wednesday that there were no grounds for opening a pre-trial investigation regarding statements by Rūta Vanagaitė, an author and public relations specialist, about Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. […]
Prienai, a city in southern Lithuania, is living the hour of the star – it has become the Lithuanian city with most mentions in international media after a local basketball club signed a contract with US celebrities. […]
Lithuania’s residents and historians believe that the three figures with the main contribution to the country’s statehood over the past century include Jonas Basanavičius, the father of national rebirth, Supreme Council Chairman Vytautas Landsbergis and interwar president Antanas Smetona. […]
Lithuanians are at the bottom of the list of EU countries when comes to happiness with family life, according a Eurobarometer survey. […]
Women of the early modern period, even those from the privileged estates, could not enjoy full civil rights in their countries. Their activity was very often limited by the private space of her house and a woman was seen as a wife, mother and a housewife. Simultaneously, the modern period signified the beginning of core changes as the ideas of the day, particularly in relation to women’s position in the society, resonated throughout Europe, down to the farthermost corners of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. […]
One in three interviewed residents of Lithuania 34 pct) say the outgoing year 2017 was a success to them personally, while around one in six (16 pct) say the year was not successful, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Friday. […]
Lithuania’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the verdict for Jurga Mataitytė who has been sentenced to nine years in prison for murdering her infant. […]
A Vilnius court Thursday closed a criminal case in which three former top executives of Vilniaus Energija (Vilnius Energy), a Lithuanian subsidiary of France’s Veolia, were charged with fraud and illegal manipulation with gas purchase prices, as a statutory limitation period has expired. […]
A court has sentenced former top executives of Naftos Grupė (Oil Group), an oil product forwarding company that was granted exceptional terms for the transhipment of oil products via Klaipėdos Nafta (Klaipeda Oil) in 2005 to 2010, to several years in prison and ordered them to pay the state-owned oil terminal almost 21 million euros in damages. […]
Lithuania’s law-enforcement have completed the pre-trial investigation into the 1.5-million-euro auction organized by the Ignalina nuclear power plant (NPP) in 2014. Abuse suspicions were brought against six individuals, including Ignalina’s current CEO Darius Janulevičius, former CEO Osvaldas Čiukšys and former former head of the commercial division, Lauras Puslys. […]
On the 28th December, sixth year in a row, Global Lithuanian Awards will convene the international Lithuanian research, art and business professionals returning for winter holidays from more than 20 countries. The event is organized by Global Lithuanian Leaders (GLL), network of professional Lithuanian diaspora. Its patron is the president of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė, who will award the Laureates. […]
The Vilnius-based European Humanities University (EHU), whose students are mostly from Belarus, has received a negative assessment from the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education, or SKVC. […]
Life in the Baltic lands in the middle ages was full of dangers. In the 13th century, the old rivalries between the local tribes were accompanied by fights against the Knights of the Cross, and the Knights of the Sword. By comparing the art of warfare practised by local tribes and alien Germans, one can notice considerable differences in technical issues, such as weaponry, fortifications, and strategies, as well as in warfare customs. In this respect, the Livonian Chronicle by Henry of Latvia is particularly telling. While Germans and other western Christians would adhere to the knightly rules of war in Livonia, local Baltic and Finno-Ugric peoples acted very much like the barbarians did during the times of the Great Migration of the Nations. […]
Lithuania’s Competition Council on Thursday imposed a maximum fine of 12.2 million euros for a cartel deal among construction companies that took part in Vilnius school and kindergarten renovation tenders. […]
Lithuania on Tuesday relocated another 16 Syrian refugees under the European Union (EU) program on Tuesday, the Migration Department said. […]
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