The local authority of the southern Lithuanian district of Alytus will not hold a public auction to sell the Simnas synagogue, which was added to the country’s register of cultural heritage half a year ago, LRT Television has reported.
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Minister of Social Security and Labor Algimanta Pabedinskienė disagrees with President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s opinion that Lithuanian’s new Labour Code is poorly balanced and needs to be improved, saying that the new law regulating labor relations is “as well-balanced as possible”.
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The Lithuanian government told the European Court of Human Rights in a suspected secret CIA prison case that what CIA-linked aircraft transported to Lithuania a decade ago was not prisoners, but communications equipment for an intelligence support center that was being set up close to Vilnius.
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Twelve Syrian refugees and a stateless person from Palestine came to Lithuania from Greece late on Wednesday under the European Union‘s resettlement program, Interior Minister Tomas Žilinskas has confirmed.
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Lithuania’s opposition Liberal Movement party is asking President Dalia Grybauskaitė to veto a law on assisted reproduction that was passed by the parliament (Seimas) this week.
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Beginning in autumn, anyone purchasing alcohol will have to show their ID to do so.
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Justice Minister Juozas Bernatonis says that Lithuania’s law-enforcement bodies have no evidence to support claims by a terror suspect that he was held in a secret CIA prison in Lithuania.
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Lithuania’s media watchdog has cancelled restrictions on two Russian-language TV channels after signals from the European Commission that the sanctions may run counter to EU legislation.
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An international team of archaeologists has located a tunnel in Lithuania used by Jewish prisoners to escape the Nazis during World War II. […]
Obstetrician-gynecologist Reda Verbickienė believes that the conservative assisted fertilisation law passed today is a loss for Lithuanians because modern treatment methods have become inaccessible, forcing patients to seek treatment abroad or waste money on procedures that may not only fail to deliver results, but may wind up harming them as well.
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The Lithuanian parliament approved an amendment to the Constitution that would tie the legal definition of a family to marriage and parenthood after the first debate on Tuesday.
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Lithuania’s Health Minister Juras Pozela is considering asking President Dalia Grybauskaite to veto a law on artificial insemination that was passed by Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday.
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More refugees arrived in Lithuania on Monday under the EU’s refugee resettlement programme. […]
Vilnius city authorities began dismantling a Soviet-era structure made from Jewish headstones last week, led by the city’s mayor. […]
A 350 year-old Torah scroll that was used in Jewish religious services in the Vilnius ghetto during World War II is returning to the Lithuanian capital. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee (NSDC) plans to return to discussing the State Security Department’s proposals to make disinformation a criminal offense in the fall. […]
The Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) on Thursday passed amendments to the Law on Citizenship, which will enable Litvaks, i.e. Jews of Lithuanian origin, and their descendants who left the country in the interwar period, to restore their citizenship rights.
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Late Wednesday evening, about 50 students blockaded the entrance to the Government building in Vilnius to protest what they feel was the hurried approval of a new liberal Labour Code.
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In a striking example of the demographic problems facing Lithuania’s small villages, a woman in Viešvilė is giving away an apartment she owns for free after failing to find any buyers.
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The state forest service and forest officials have responded to more than 320 potential fires in forests this year, but the Ministry of Environment has said that the terrible Curonian spit forest fires of 2014 will not happen again.
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