Linas Kukuraitis
Society

New SocMin proposes to change refugee reception rules

Social Security and Labour Minister-designate Linas Kukuraitis proposes to change, based on Estonia’s model, the way migrants are integrated in Lithuania in order to stop relocated refugees from leaving the country. […]

A stone
Society

Locals throw stones at Syrian teens in Lithuania’s Rukla

Local youths on Friday threw stones at Syrian teenagers from a refugee reception center in Rukla, in central Lithuania, the police said. […]

Redwan Eid
Society

To Whom It May Concern… before it is too late! #RefugeesLT

This is the first text from our #RefugeesLT initiative.
On my third month in Lithuania as a refugee, and as I am passing through different situations here varying between the good and bad, I can confidently say now that Lithuanians have all the good seeds inside them to blossom and prove they are not less in generosity and willingness to extend a hand to help than any other nation who has received refugees along the history so far. I could see this with all my Lithuanian friends around me and even those who I met by chance in the streets as I needed to ask about anything and they happened to know that I am a refugee. […]

Pabėgėlių stovykla Kavalos mieste Graikijoje (E. Labanausko nuotr.)
Society

10 Syrian refugees relocated to Lithuania from Greece

A group of 10 refugees from war-torn Syria came to Lithuania on Monday evening under the European Union‘s resettlement programme. […]