After the first three (of five) episodes of the Chernobyl show, that stunned viewers and critics, a slew of interviews with the film’s actors, scenario writers and producers emerged online, writes arts critic Ernestas Parulskis. […]
With the “Farmers” announcing their intent to initiate a new parliamentary investigation, former prime ministers Andrius Kubilius of the Conservatives and Algirdas Butkevičius of the Social Democrats do not conceal their negative view of such […]
1. Democracies, both new and old, have been facing numerous challenges in the 21st century. Growing populist and authoritarian tendencies, on the one hand, and the abundance of oligarchical symptoms in young democracies, on the […]
The Seimas of Lithuanian’s Committee on National Security and Defence [NSGK] probe into business groups’ influence on politics leave an impression of selectiveness and fragmentation, Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of the opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats [TS-LKD], says. […]
The damage of MG Baltic deals and the Leo LT story to the State of Lithuania could be worth “millions of euros”, therefore, attempts will be made to recover the money, Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, says. […]
What do the companies Arvi, MG Baltic, part of the so-called officials and Russia‘s aims to penetrate Lithuania’s energy system have in common? The conclusions of the Seimas National Security and Defence Committee (NSGK) investigation […]
1. Democracies, both new and old, have been facing numerous challenges in the 21st century. Growing populist and authoritarian tendencies, on the one hand, and the abundance of oligarchical symptoms in young democracies, on the […]
Last Saturday Rasa Juknevičienė was elected the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. She believes that Ukraine and Georgia have only begun on the path of seeking NATO membership, even if their entry to the […]
Over and over again, we keep hearing the same imperative on Lithuania’s relations with Russia. Over and over again we are beckoned to remain friends and blamed for the lack of friendship. In fact, the […]
Lately, we no longer gear arguments amongst Lithuanian political parties over larger strategic questions: they agree on energy, defence, they don’t argue over the new Labour Code. Political scientist Mažvydas Jastramskis didn’t criticize these tendencies: […]
Russia’s nuclear energy giant Rosatom, which is building the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, had plans to gain a foothold in Lithuania, according to declassified material provided by the State Security Department to the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence. […]
The new Minister of Energy Žygimantas Vaičiūnas does not deny the possibility that in negotiations to disconnect from the so-called BRELL ring there could be tensions, but states that Russia understands the goals of Lithuania and other Baltic States perfectly well. […]
The Lithuanian and Swedish electricity markets should be connected by the second interconnection, NordBalt 2, by 2025, while the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant project should be frozen, suggests a new energy strategy worked out by the outgoing Lithuanian Energy Ministry and presented by Minister Rokas Masiulis on Tuesday […]
The winner of Parliamentary elections in Lithuania, Peasant and Greens Union, together with their coalition partner, Social Democratic Party, aims to erase Energy Ministry from Lithuanian political landscape. […]
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), the party that triumphed in recent parliamentary elections, says that the Energy Ministry, which, in words, was established for a new nuclear power plant project, will be scrapped and its functions will be transferred to a separate department at the Economy Ministry. […]
Origins found in the interwar periodThe LVŽS consider themselves to have originated from the Lithuanian Popular Peasants’ Union (LVLS), which was active during the interwar period between World War I and World War II. It […]
Lithuania’s stalled project on the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas, in the eastern part of the country, is at the most advanced stage, compared to similar projects in Europe, Lithuania’s Energy Minister has said, adding that the construction of the facility could be launched within three months if the Baltic countries agreed to do that. […]
If we all sat at a table in a tavern, having fun eating and drinking and then decided to vote if we wanted to pay the bill or not, the chances are that most would vote to pay the bill. What would a table like that look like from the side as it flaunts the results of that vote, demanding that the customers’ opinion be respected and their vote not be trampled on? […]
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