Rosatom
Politics

Rosatom, MG Baltic have joint interests in Ignalina N-plant tender – Lithuania’s NSGK

Russian nuclear energy construction giant Rosatom and Lithuania’s MG Baltic business group, owned by Darius Mockus, have joint interests in the upcoming multimillion project on the construction of Ignalina nuclear plant’s disposal facility, the Lithuanian Seimas’ Committee on National Security and Defense [NSGK] states after investigating business groups’ influence on politics. […]

NSGK meeting

Nine key findings of Seimas committee’s influence probe

The Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) completed on Wednesday its investigation into business and interest groups’ influence on political processes and decision-makers. […]

Povilas Urbšys
CORPORATE

Urbšys on Karbauskis’ comments: Tomas Dapkus would simply inform me if something was wrong

Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) leader Ramūnas Karbauskis claims he has heard that the Seimas National Security and Defence Committee investigation over business and politicians’ links could also feature a former member of his […]

Kęstutis Girnius
CORPORATE

Kęstutis Girnius. How reliable is the VSD report?

For a few weeks now, the main attention of Lithuanian politicians and news media has been focused on the State Security Department (VSD) report on the illegal efforts by the MG Baltic group to influence […]

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. […]