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Most Influential in Lithuania 2017: sports personalities

Sabonis, Alekna, Meilutytė top list of Lithuania’s most influential sports figures

August 30, 2017 BNS EN 0

Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuania’s basketball legend who now heads the country’s Basketball Federation, Virgilijus Alekna, a former discus thrower and now a lawmaker, and Rūta Meilutyte, an Olympic gold-winning swimmer, are ranked as Lithuania’s most influential sports figures, Delfi.lt reported on Wednesday. […]

Lithuanian parties on celebrity hunt ahead of elections

March 18, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

As general elections approach, Lithuania’s political parties are looking for recognizable names to spice up their candidate lists. The conservatives are eyeing racer Benediktas Vanagas while the liberals would like to have TV presenter Edita Mildažytė on their ballot, LRT reports. […]

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Defence ministry spent €20k sponsoring Vanagas in Dakar Rally

January 29, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

The Ministry of National Defence spent €20,000 supporting Lithuanian racer Benediktas Vanagas‘ participation in the prestigious Dakar Rally. […]

Is Nausėda already forming the ruling majority? Only three parties were invited to meet

October 7, 2024 0

While the heads of the opposition parliamentary parties are ironing their suits and preparing for their meeting with President Gitanas Nausėda, the ruling parties shrug their shoulders. Counting down the days until the parliamentary elections, […]

Complicated Sino-Lithuanian relationship

October 1, 2024 0

As the Seimas elections approach, more parties, especially opposition parties, promise to change their foreign policy. The most significant change, in their view, is in relations with China. The opposition believes that seeing China as […]

Economist speaks out about the unstoppable rise in prices: ‘It’s getting a bit scary’

September 24, 2024 0

Prices in Lithuania decreased by 0.5% over the month, but annual inflation is again approaching the 1% mark. The most significant price increases over the year were in cafes and restaurants – nearly 9%. Some […]

Who could have thought? Germans give us a brigade, we give them electricity

September 20, 2024 0

Rokas Masiulis, the Head of the electricity transmission operator Litgrid, was one of the energy experts who, at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, calmly and even optimistically looked to the future: Lithuania would […]

The EU must stop funding the brutal Cuba regime

September 16, 2024 0

Russia has always been Europe’s enemy. This is something that many of our Western and Central European friends seemed to forget since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not so in Eastern Europe and the […]

Grybauskaitė effect? Among the candidates for Prime Minister, there is also an option that has not yet been named out loud

September 13, 2024 0

With the parliamentary elections just a month away, party leaders are already working out, in public and behind closed doors, the scenarios for the foundations of the future governing coalition and who will lead the […]