Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

Lithuanian president’s rating plummets over email scandal – survey

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s popularity rating has dived following the disclosure of her email exchange with former Liberal Movement leader Eligijus Masiulis, a new survey, published on Saturday, showed. […]

Prof. Algis Krupavičius
CORPORATE

A few notes about the Augean stables of Lithuanian politics

Several last weeks with the e-mails from Eligijus Masiulis, former Liberal Movement Party leader and who is currently under criminal investigation, a scandal of e-mails from Ms. President with a „tulip“ pseudonym, hidden political influences from the MG Baltic corporation and leaked files from the State Security Department about politico-business relations at least partially opened the curtain of the backstage „kitchen“ of Lithuanian politics. Although it was not a big surprise to the insiders of national politics that instead of kitchen of politics we might be brought suddenly to the Augean stables. And exactly this has happened. A smell and picture here are far from nice. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian president says EU must seek to keep Iran nuclear deal alive

It is important for European leaders to seek that Iran continue nuclear non-proliferation after the United States‘ withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday. […]

LNK camera
CORPORATE

What to do with those shooting at the state: Bakas softens his tone

Having proposed that suspect news media outlets should have their licenses stripped, Vytautas Bakas is backing away, claiming that this is not his opinion. The head of the Lithuanian branch of Freedom House Vytis Jurkonis […]

High-profiled ceremony for the forthcoming The Lost Shtetl Museum & Memorial Complex - @ ArkLM
Society

High profile ceremony for the forthcoming museum in Lithuania

On May 4, 2018 the ground-breaking ceremony for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex took place in the middle of Lithuania, in Šeduva. The project is designed by professor Rainer Mahlamäki and Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, Finland. Professor Mahlamäki attended the ceremony, as well as Dr Inna Rogatchi, the author of the forthcoming film and book on Rainer Mahlamäki’s projects of memorial architecture. […]

Elvinas Jankevičius
Politics

Jankevičius appointed as Lithuania’s justice minister

Elvinas Jankevičius, currently an advisor to the Lithuanian prime minster, is set to become the country’s next justice minister. […]