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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the ongoing parliamentary investigation into businesses' influence on political processes is selective as it does not cover links between the current ruling bloc and businesses.

The Labor Party's popularity in Lithuania is rising after its founder Viktor Uspaskich took the lead again. Meanwhile, a report published by the State Security Department has pushed the liberals' rating down, a new survey shows.

A Vilnius court said on Friday that its first hearing in the major political corruption case involving MG Baltic, one of Lithuania's largest business groups, and two political parties is scheduled for June 7.

Several last weeks with the e-mails from Eligijus Masiulis, former Liberal Movement Party leader and who is currently under criminal investigation, a scandal of e-mails from Ms. President with a „tulip“ pseudonym, hidden political influences from the MG Baltic corporation and leaked files from the S...

Viktor Uspaskich, the founder and chairman of Lithuania's Labor Party, says he plans to run for Vilnius mayor.

The publication of intelligence information on the MG Baltic business group's influence on political processes in Lithuania is aimed at making direct influence on judges about to hear a political corruption case involving MG Baltic, the group said on Tuesday.

Eugenijus Gentvilas, leader of Lithuania's Liberal Movement, categorically rejects claims made the State Security Department's (VSD) report that the Liberal Movement was a long-term project of the MG Baltic business group.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė does not deny having had email exchanges with Eligijus Masiulis, a former Liberal Movement leader suspected in a political corruption case, but says that she cannot confirm the authenticity of letters published in the media.

Eligijus Masiulis, former leader of Lithuania's liberals, currently a suspect in a political corruption case, claims to have exchanged emails with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė for at least two years, the Lietuvos Rytas daily writes.

Another judge of the Vilnius Regional Court has disqualified himself from hearing a major political corruption case involving MG Baltic, one of Lithuania's largest business groups, and two political parties.

The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats remain the most popular party in Lithuania and its lead over the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS), which came in second in April, has increased, according to a new survey by Vilmorus pollster for the Lietuvos Rytas daily...

Raimondas Kurlianskis, former vice-president of the Lithuanian MG Baltic concern, is charged with paying bribes to politicians for influence to adoption of laws, determining winners of public procurement tenders and appointment of officials, law-enforcement said on Tuesday.

A major political corruption case involving MG Baltic, one of Lithuania's largest business groups, and two political parties, the Liberal Movement and the Labor Party, goes to court this week.

Viktor Uspaskich, the founder of the Lithuanian Labor Party, was elected as the party's new chairman at a congress in Kaunas on Sunday.

Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission on Tuesday distributed a state grant of 2.751 million euros for the first half of 2018 among the country's political parties.

The majority of Lithuania's residents are unhappy with the parliament's performance over the first year after the 2016 parliamentary elections, shows a survey conducted by RAIT pollster for BNS news agency.

Lithuania's MEP Viktor Uspaskich, the founder of the Labor Party who was not active in politics on the political arena for the past few years, on Friday confirmed plans to run for the party's leadership.

Monday marks a year since the first round of Lithuania's parliamentary elections. BNS provides an overview of the key decisions taken by the new parliament, as well as the scandals it faced and the challenges it will still have to cope with.

Lithuania's political parties lost 6,386 members since last October, although tendencies over the past few years were opposite, with party membership consistently growing, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday.