Law-enforcement officials have seized more than half a ton of hashish, worth an estimated 5 million euros, and detained eight suspects in an operation.
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Lithuanian border guards on Thursday removed posters with Soviet symbols from two houses Dieveniskes, a small town in the eastern district of Salcininkai, the State Border Guard Service said.
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius on Friday denounced racist remarks by Gedvydas Vainauskas, president of BC Lietuvos Rytas, a professional basketball club based in the Lithuanian capital, about the number of black players on the team.
The district of Jurbarkas, which borders the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, is to return almost 1 million euros in EU funds to the Lithuania-Poland-Russia Cross-Border Cooperation Program, the daily Lietuvos Zinios reported on Friday.
The heads of Lithuania's Curonian Spit municipality of Neringa are concerned over the practice of renting out yachts docked at the Nida port to tourists as hotels, the daily Lietuvos Zinios reported on Friday.
Gintautas Kevisas, the long-standing director general of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT), is being dismissed from his post, the Culture Ministry said.
The government has not yet made its decision on the use of 13 million euros paid by Alstom to the country as ordered by a London court in a case in which the French group's Swedish energy unit Alstom Power was accused of corruption in Lithuania.
The Foreign Ministry unveiled on Monday a new mobile application for travelers, named "Travel Safely".
Amid the increasingly heated discussions in the Baltic states about the financing of the European-gauge Rail Baltica project from European Union (EU) funds, Wim van de Camp of the European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee says that the three Baltic states would definitely secure European...
The new top executives of the Lithuanian state-run railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (LG) have turned to prosecutors over about 5 million euros in damages caused to the company by possibly non-transparent operations of its earlier chiefs.
