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Justina Vaišvilaitė-Braziulienė

Over twenty organisations raising funds for Ukraine have voiced their support for MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas, current chair of the Seimas security committee, as next defence minister. The move comes after a number of mostly human rights NGOs sent a letter to the president asking not to approve the nomina...

Justina Vaišvilaitė-Braziulienė

More than twenty non-governmental organisations have asked President Gitanas Nausėda not to appoint MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas as minister of national defence. The politician’s values are in conflict with human rights, they say.

Karolis Broga

On Wednesday, eight umbrella organisations uniting more than 1,000 Lithuanian NGOs and trade unions addressed governmental bodies urging politicians not to delay the tax reform and to implement wider systemic changes. The written address calls for adequate funding of public services that would help ...

Karolis Broga

More than 10,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) are being held by Russia, head of the non-governmental organisation Military Liberation, Natalia Epifanova, said in a press conference at the Lithuanian Parliament on 18 April. She noted that the number of POW exchanges decreased significantly recen...