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Homicide convict in Sweden to serve life in Lithuania

July 4, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian citizen Nerijus Bilevičius sentenced for murder of a young female in Sweden will have to serve his life sentence in Lithuania, a Šiauliai court ruled on Tuesday. […]

Catholics angered by Constitutional Court ruling on dismissal from conscription

July 4, 2017 BNS EN 0

Clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church of Lithuania have expressed indignation of the Tuesday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court, which said that the clergy of traditional religious communities had been dismissed from military or alternative defense service without due grounds. […]

Clergy ungroundedly dismissed from military service – Constitutional Court

July 4, 2017 BNS EN 0

Clergymen of Lithuania’s traditional religious communities are dismissed from military and alternative defense service without grounds, the Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday. […]

4 refugee families moved directly to Lithuanian municipalities

July 3, 2017 BNS EN 0

Four families of Syrian refugees that arrived in Lithuania in June under the European Union (EU) program bypassed the Rukla refugee registration center and were moved directly to the country’s biggest cities, officers in charge of their integration said. […]

Lithuania in for rainy weekend

June 30, 2017 BNS EN 0

The rainy weather will linger Lithuania through the weekend and into next week, the country’s Hydrometeorological Service said. […]

Vilnius declares emergency situation over Gediminas Hill

June 30, 2017 BNS EN 0

The city of Vilnius on Thursday declared an emergency situation due the critical condition of Gediminas Hill and warned that a new landslide would put the capital’s landmark Gediminas Castle Tower on top of the mound in danger of collapsing. […]

Heaviest downpour in 20 yrs floods Vilnius streets, causes closure of bypass

June 29, 2017 BNS EN 0

Heavy downpours battered Vilnius on Thursday, forcing authorities to close the Lithuanian capital’s western bypass and causing public transport delays and numerous emergencies in the city. […]

Flooded Vilnius in pictures

June 29, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

Many Lithuanians woke up this morning to a sever rain, bright and loud thunderstorms. According to the Vilnius Municipality this was the most intensive rain since 1993. Some Vilnius streets are flooded, a few traffic lights out of order. The taxi drivers are charging the Christmas fee and some 7000 Vilnius’ region residents are left without electricity. […]

Thunderstorm in Lithuania. Photo V. Gulbickij

Lithuania in for a few hot days with T-storms, squalls

June 28, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania is in for a spell of hot and rainy weather with thunderstorms and a chance of squalls, the country’s Hydrometeorological Service said. […]

Politicians consider introducing national security classes at schools

June 28, 2017 BNS EN 0

Several ministries and the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union (LRU), a civilian paramilitary organization, are considering introducing national security classes for senior school students starting in the next academic year, Deputy Defense Minister Giedrimas Jeglinskas said on Wednesday. […]

Refugee and migrant integration center set to open in Kaunas

June 28, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian Red Cross Society’s refugee and migrant integration center is opening in Lithuania’s second-biggest city of Kaunas on Wednesday. […]

CERN membership opens opportunities for Lithuanian science, businesses

June 27, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s membership of the Council of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is opening up great opportunities for the country’s scientists and businesses, the organization’s director-general said in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]

Bear’s tracks found at Lithuania’s border with Belarus for 3rd time this month

June 27, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian border guards have for the third time this month come across tracks of a bear in the district of Švenčionys at the border with Belarus. […]

Looking for their place under the sun: Lithuanian refugees in the West and East

June 27, 2017 Rimvydas Petrauskas ldkistorija.lt 0

What were the first immigrants running away from? In 1268 Lithuanian noble Šiukšta (nobilis Suxe) was baptized with the name of Nicholas in Riga. He took an oath of vassal dependence to the local archbishop, and gave him his patrimonial holdings in Nalšia and received them back from the archbishop as a feudal fief. At the time Lithuania was dealing with internal conflicts after the killing of King Mindaugas. […]