Lithuania

Latvian law enforcement has detained a person who allegedly defaced a monument to post-war partisan leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in Merkinė with red paint at the end of January, TV3 TV reported on Wednesday evening.

Lithuania’s annual Book Fair 2024 is set to officially open Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Litexpo Exhibition and Congress Centre in Vilnius.

President Gitanas Nausėda says he is positive about the possibility of granting Lithuanian citizenship to American ice dancer Allison Reed.

In 2022, the share of renewable energy sources in transport in Lithuania reached 6.7%, while fossil fuels accounted for 93.3% of all the energy used in transport, said Eurostat, the European Union’s (EU) statistical office.

Europe is not ready to defend itself without the help of the United States, but European countries are making great efforts to strengthen their capabilities, Lithuania’s Ambassador to the European Union (EU) Arnoldas Pranckevičius says.

More than 54% of Lithuanians oppose a proposal to introduce a universal defence tax as of 2025, a public opinion poll commissioned by the LRT public broadcaster finds.

A network of over 3,300 shelters has been established over the past year as part of efforts to strengthen public preparedness for potential threats, says the interior minister.

Lithuanian swimmer Rūta Meilutytė on Sunday won the gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar.

In January 2024, according to the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP), which is methodologically harmonised with those of other EU member states, average annual inflation in Lithuania stood at 7.3 percent, average annual inflation calculated based on the consumer price index (CPI) – at 7.6 pe...

The public radio LRT has reported that, according to employees of the Ministry of Health, ten heads of its departments were recently appointed without holding competitions first.

Public activist and TV host Andrius Tapinas continues his transparency campaign concerning politicians’ expense allowances. After examining spending on expenses by municipal councillors last year, he has moved to checking how members of parliament spend their expense allowances.

On Wednesday, at an extraordinary sitting, the Seimas granted the prosecutor general’s request and lifted MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis’ immunity from prosecution amid an investigation into antisemitic posts online.

Teltonika is strengthening its semiconductor project team. In the coming months, the company group intends to hire about 20 specialists who will contribute to one of Lithuania’s most ambitious tech projects – the establishment of the semiconductor chip industry – the company has announced in a press...

Russia has declared numerous politicians and officials from the Baltic States and Eastern Europe as “wanted”.

Estonia’s Financial Supervision Authority says it started supervising the Estonian-registered public company AS BaltCap in August 2023, while the fund manager OU BaltCap Infrastructure Management is still not supervised as it has not been licensed.

Six out of ten Lithuanians agree that American figure skater Allison Reed should be granted Lithuanian citizenship, a poll shows.

The Baltic States should join their bidding zones to boost competition in the electricity supply market, says Lithuania’s energy regulator.

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Politics is adults' business. Such a mindset seems to be inherent to most young people in Lithuania. According to various studies and surveys, their involvement in political processes is rather shallow and clearly insufficient, however, their dissatisfaction with the government and its decisions con...

A pre-trial investigation into alleged misappropriation of around EUR 30 million from the BaltCap Infrastructure Fund is of very large scope, prompting officials to refrain from making any initial conclusions, says the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT).