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Society

Study estimates benefits of accepting refugees for Lithuania

In the “optimistic scenario”, Lithuania will recover what it will have invested into resettling and integrating refugees within five years. The “pessimistic scenario” draws the line at nine years. In either case, the country will benefit from accepting refugees: Lithuania will have demonstrated its adherence to the European Union values. Not to mention the migrants’ contribution to economic growth. […]

Chiune Sugihara
Society

Foreign minister of Lithuania pays tribute to Sugihara

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Friday attended an informal discussion at the Sugihara House in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, on educational projects, introducing Chiune Sugihara’s achievements, prospects for cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the need to raise general public awareness, in particular amongst young people, on the legacy of Sugihara and other diplomats who saved lives. […]

Border Guard Service
Uncategorized

Russia criticizes Lithuania’s move to refuse entry to Latvian activists

Russia‘s Foreign Ministry has criticized Lithuania’s decision to blacklist three Latvian public figures and refuse them entry to Lithuania for an event in Klaipėda. Lithuania has rejected the criticism. […]

Andrei Nekrasov
Politics

Lithuania might give asylum to persecuted Russian journalist

Cyprus might hand over Russian journalist Andrey Nekrasov, recently detained in the country under a Moscow-issued arrest warrant, to Lithuania as he arrived in Cyprus on a Lithuanian visa, officials said on Wednesday. […]

Rolandas Kriščiūnas (second left) and President Dalia Grybauskaitė (second right). Photo by R.Dačkus, President's Office
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