Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė  meets with Mission Siberia 2017 team
Society

President meets with Mission Siberia 2017 team

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met on Friday with the Mission Siberia 2017 team who are leaving next week for Russia’s Siberian city of Irkutsk. […]

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Economy

Study shows Lithuanians believe to be most business-savvy among Balts

Lithuanians believe that the most important thing for the start of the business is having enough savings and a great business idea (76 percent), while Latvians view know-how as the most important (73 percent) and Estonians think that the most important thing is an idea and know-how (79 percent), shows a survey of entrepreneurship of residents of the Baltic states conducted by Spinter research (Spinter Surveys) for DNB bank. The survey was published on Thursday. […]

Rain in Vilnius
Society

Tuesday’s downpour flooded cellars, interrupted traffic, power supplies. PHOTOS

The thunderstorm that ripped through Lithuania on Tuesday night and early hours of Wednesday caused substantial damage across the country, flooding cellars, rupturing a gas pipeline and interrupting traffic for a few hours on some streets due to massive rainfall. Bottom levels of some largest malls in Vilnius were also flooded. […]

Flooded Vilnius, again
Society

Downpour in Vilnius prevents landing of 6 flights

The heavy rainfall in Lithuania on Tuesday evening prevented six airplanes from landing at the Vilnius international airport. In early hours of Wednesday, four of the planes returned to Vilnius, however, two morning flights to Warsaw and Riga were canceled, as the airplanes intended for the flights decided not to return to the Lithuanian capital. […]

In Afghanistan
Society

Lithuania takes in 4 Afghans who worked with Lithuanian troops

Four local men who worked with Lithuanian troops in Afghanistan have come to live in Lithuania, with one of them still waiting for asylum, the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces told BNS. […]

Suspects escorted to a court room
Society

Seimas allows filming, broadcasting, photographing court rulings

Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday adopted amendments to the Law on Courts, which allow filming, broadcasting and photographing pronouncement of court verdicts. […]