Society
Direct flight connected Vilnius, Astana on Sunday
SCAT Airlines, Kazakhstan‘s second-largest air company, launched direct flights connecting Vilnius and Astana on Sunday. […]
Kazakhstan
Foreign affairs
Kazakhstan’s SCAT Airlines to launch direct Astana-Vilnius service
SCAT Airlines is set to launch in late May direct flights between Kazakhstan‘s capital of Astana and Lithuania’s capital of Vilnius. […]
Economy
Office in Poland marks westward shift by Lithuanian Railways – CEO
Wednesday’s opening of a representative office in Poland by Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) marks a shift in focus to the West, the state railway company’s chief executive officer said. […]
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Ex-health minister gets high-ranking job with Kazakh university
Dainius Pavalkis, a former Lithuanian education and science minister, has become one of the heads of Kazakh National Medical University. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania to appoint new ambassadors to Germany, Italy, Vatican
On Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry registered draft legislation on the appointment of new ambassadors to Germany, Italy and the Vatican. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s consul general recalled from Almaty after reports of visa fraud
Lithuania’s consul general Regimantas Jablonskas was recalled from Kazakhstan‘s largest city of Almaty following reports about non-transparent visa issuing. […]
Society
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Lithuania, Kazakhstan to sign deal on handover of convicts
Lithuania and Kazakhstan will sign an agreement on handover of convicted and jailed persons in Vilnius on Monday. […]
Economy
Opinion
Eurasian Economic Union – reality or fiction?
Operating since 2015, the Eurasian Economic Union formed (EEU) over a relatively short period of time, and passed through all three stages of integration – from the customs union established in 2010 to the single market in 2012, culminating with the integrated economic union, which included coordination of the individual state economic policies starting in 2015. In principle, this inclusive structure and institutional framework is very similar to the European Union (EU), the difference being that the latter’s integration process, covering not only the single internal market but also various policies, took place over almost 40 years. The integration process arises from the bottom up. […]
Defence
Kazakh, Belarusian arms inspectors to visit NATO exercise
A group of arms control inspectors from Kazakhstan and Belarus are to visit this week military training areas in Lithuania and the Iron Sword 2016 multinational exercise that is currently underway in the country, the Defence Ministry said on Monday. […]
Opinion
Unfreezing the status quo in the Caucasus
The warring parties in the Karabakh conflict, especially the Azerbaijani side, have decided to shake the status quo in the Caucasus. Violence could recur at any time and the latest fighting clearly demonstrates that the combined goodwill and cooperation of Moscow and Washington is no longer sufficient. […]
Uncategorized
The impact of Panama Papers in Eastern Europe – and rest of the world
On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift. […]
CORPORATE
Lithuanian railways wins freight deal with Kazakh company
Kazakhstan will being transporting goods to Scandanavian and Western European markets using Lithuanian Railways trains after a new contract was signed between KTZ Express of Kazakhstan and Lithuanian railways. […]
Society
Mission Siberia 2015 returns back to Lithuania
Participants of the annual initiative Mission Siberia 2015 returned to Vilnius on Saturday after spending two weeks in Russia. […]
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Kazakh citizen wanted by Interpol detained in Lithuania
Kazakh citizen Syrym Shalabayev was detained in Vilnius on Tuesday after more than two years of being wanted by the Interpol. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian PM congratulates Kazakhstan on completing WTO negotiations
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has extended greetings to Kazakhstan over the successful completion of 20 years of negotiations for the membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the PM’s Office reports. […]
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PM Butkevičius: Kazakhstan is Lithuania’s primary partner in Central Asia
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, who is on an official visit to Kazakhstan, met on Tuesday with Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov and other high-ranking officials. […]
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Putin’s middle class is fleeing to Latvia
Vitaly Mansky, a Russian documentary filmmaker, knows exactly when he decided to establish a bolthole outside the Russian Federation. It was the spring of 2014, and Mansky was in Spain for a film festival, watching news in his hotel room. An anchor at one of the Kremlin-controlled news stations reported that Russia’s parliament had allowed President Vladimir Putin to use the army to protect his compatriots in other countries. In other words, they had legalized the annexation of Crimea and provided support for pro-Russian combatants in Eastern Ukraine. […]