Crime and punishment
Politics

Seimas to discuss president’s bid to raise fines for crimes

Lithuania’s parliament will consider the proposal to raise fines for offenses and link the sizes of the fines with the size of the damage, gains by offenders or the size of bribes in criminal investigations. […]

Tomas Venclova
Society

President awarding poet, publicist, translator Venclova

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė will Monday confer a state award upon prominent poet, publicist, essayist and translator Tomas Venclova. […]

President Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

President expects SocDems’ decision to have no major impact on Seimas work

President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s (LSDP) decision on whether or not to stay in the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) will have no major impact on the parliament’s work. […]

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CORPORATE

Surfacing state owned company privatisation plan raises concerns

A special government workgroup has been preparing proposals over the privatisation of certain state owned companies, Delfi found. For example there are plans to sell a third of Lietuvos Energija [Lithuanian Energy], Lietuvos Geležinkeliai [Lithuanian […]