Society
Refugees in Lithuania begin search for work
Refugees resettled in Lithuania have started looking for job, says the country’s Labour Exchange which set up a special unit to work with them. […]
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Society
End of WWII anniversary marked at Antakalnio Cemetery in Vilnius
Several thousand people gathered in the Antakalnio Cemetery in Vilnius on Monday to mark the end of World War Two. […]
Society
Vilnius police take down Soviet flags on Russia’s Victory Day
Vilnius police were alerted twice on Monday about public displays of Soviet Union symbols, which is a crime in Lithuania. […]
Society
Maxima looking to prove that Russia is behind boycott over high prices
Maxima LT, a leading retailer in Lithuania, plans to turn to the State Security Department (VSD) over next week’s planned boycott of supermarket chains that is being organized via social media. […]
Society
Lithuanian MEP offers home to Iraqi refugee family
Lithuanian member of the European Parliament Petras Auštrevičius is sheltering a refugee family from Iraq for half a year, Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
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CORPORATE
Lithuanian professor ‘will win the Nobel prize’ for genome editing
Biotechnology Institute Professor Virginijus Šikšnys will become the first Lithuanian to get the Nobel Prize, according to a leading expert in the field. […]
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Drones to take unruly holidaymakers to task on Lithuania’s beaches
Lifeguards in Palanga, Lithuania’s Baltic Sea resort, will be using drones to police holidaymakers on the resort’s busy beaches this summer. […]
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Opinion
From Grand Duke Gediminas to present – A history of how Lithuania has treated its ethnic communities
Lithuania has a long history of being home to ethnic minority communities, from as early as 1323 when Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas invited foreign artisans and merchants to come to Lithuania and settle there without interference in their customs and culture. […]
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Lithuanian regulator may force broadcasters to charge for Russian NTV Mir broadcasts
The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) is considering a move to force rebroadcasters to remove the Russian-language channel NTV Mir Lithuania from their free channel package, making it available only to paying subscribers. […]
Society
Why do Lithuanian men live the shortest lives in the EU?
New data shows that Lithuanian men’s life expectancy is the shortest in the European Union at 68 years of age on average and scientists are investigating what the key causes could be behind this. […]
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Global LT
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New €1m Roma integration project in Vilnius will challenge negative perceptions
Vilnius municipality is to launch a new Roma integration project that it said would challenge the negative perceptions of the ethnic group in Lithuania and would help Roma to integrate with Lithuanian society in a way that was tailored to their needs. […]
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Society
What world leader did a grandmother in Klaipėda receive a letter from?
A grandmother from Klaipėda, Lithuania has received an unexpected letter from a world leader congratulating her on the end of World War II. […]
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Cameras to stop Vilnius drivers using new public transport lanes
Vilnius is going to introduce sophisticated monitoring for public transport lanes to fine and prevent unauthorised drivers from entering the lanes, said Vilnius mayor Remigijus Šimašius. […]
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OSCE praises Lithuanian president’s veto of law on court reporting
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has welcomed Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s decision to veto amendments to the Criminal Code criminalizing the disclosure of information from closed court proceedings. […]
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Head of Lithuanian bank to appear before Seimas after leak shows offshore connection
Vitas Vasiliauskas, the head of Lithuania’s central bank, has been asked to provide an explanation to the Seimas after it was reported that he represented an offshore company linked to Russia’s oligarch Nikolai Tsvetkov before becoming the head of the bank. […]