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May242019

Advance voting in Lithuania: people reveal, who they voted for

Advance voting began in the country’s municipalities for the second round of presidential elections and the European Parliament elections.

May242019

US ambassador pressed Lithuanian government on Huawei, news agency reports

The US ambassador pressed the Lithuanian government not to allow China's technology giant Huawei to participate in the development of the country's 5G network, Reuters reported on Friday.

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May242019

Vilnius ranks second to Riga among Baltic airports by traffic

Lithuania's largest international airport in Vilnius ranked second only to Riga among all Baltic airports in terms of 2018 passenger, flight and cargo statistics.

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May242019

Lithuania calls on IAEA to take action over Belarus' nuclear plant safety

Lithuania has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to take action to ensure that Belarus does not launch its Astravyets nuclear power plant, located close to Vilnius, until all of its safety issues have been solved, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

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May242019

Uncertain future for Lithuania’s 24,000 school graduates

As the last bell rings for Lithuania’s 24,000 high school graduates, many of them will depart for studies abroad. Some students say they’re leaving for better education, others say they can’t find the right study programme in Lithuania. Meanwhile, Lithuanian government is planning to finance studies abroad – with conditions attached, however.

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May242019

3 Latvian companies to buy gas from Lietuvos Energijos Tiekimas

May242019

On Belarus and its sovereignty

May242019

Lithuanian documentary film triumphed in Chicago

May242019

4 out of 5 returning emigrants admit: they are driven home by the longing for their homeland and close relatives

May242019

Launch of Marius Jakulis Jason Foundation – invitation to build Lithuania, together

May242019

Champion swimmer Meilutytė speaks of depression and desire to remake her life after ending career

The Lithuanian champion swimmer Rūta Meilutytė spoke about her struggles with depression and a wish to remake her life in the first interview after ending her swimming career.

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May242019

Belarus' nuclear plant timeline – from Rosatom, to construction accidents 50 kilometers from Vilnius

Belarus is building a nuclear plant in Astravyets, 50 kilometers from Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Despite suffering numerous construction accidents, the plant is due to become operational in autumn 2019. Where did it all begin?

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May242019

Number of job vacancies down in country

The number of registered job vacancies for salaried employees in Lithuania stood at 19,100 in the first quarter of this year, down by 1,000 vacancies from late March last year, the country's statistical service, Statistics Lithuania, said on Friday.

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May242019

Wang Yi: U.S. pressure on Huawei is 'economic bullying' - the Lithuania Tribune

The U.S. pressure on Chinese private enterprises like Huawei is “typical economic bullying behavior,” said Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on told CGTN on May 22. Wang made the remarks at the [...]

May242019

Young people in Lithuania join climate change protests but lag behind Western Europe

Young people in Vilnius and Klaipėda plan to join an international protest against clime change on Friday. However, the movement has attracted considerably less attention in Lithuania than in Western Europe.

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Belarus' nuclear plant timeline – from Rosatom, to construction accidents 50 kilometers from Vilnius

May 24th

Belarus is building a nuclear plant in Astravyets, 50 kilometers from Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Despite suffering numerous construction accidents, the plant is due to become operational in autumn 2019. Where did it all begin?

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Young people in Lithuania join climate change protests but lag behind Western Europe

May 24th

Young people in Vilnius and Klaipėda plan to join an international protest against clime change on Friday. However, the movement has attracted considerably less attention in Lithuania than in Western Europe.

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Typical Lithuanian EP candidate: 51-year-old male who owns €290k

May 24th

A statistically typical Lithuanian candidate running for the European Parliament is 51-year-old male “who celebrated his birthday three months ago,” says Laura Matjošaitytė, the chairwoman of the Central Electoral Commission. The candidate list includes eight millionaires and a third are women.

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Šiauliai to build a square for righteous among nations

May 24th

A square for righteous among the nations will be opened in Lithuania's northern city of Šiauliai near the villa of Chaim Frenkel, according to a local newspaper. The site is also where Jewish ghettoes were situated during the Second World War.

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EU Mobility Package contains ‘protectionism’, Lithuanian Transport Minister says

May 24th

Rokas Masiulis, Lithuania’s Minister of Transport and Communications, claimed “protectionism” is noticeable in the so-called EU Mobility Package proposal.

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Mass WW2 burial sites discovered in Šiauliai military airbase

May 24th

The remains of around 700 World War Two victims might be buried in the territory of Lithuania's Air Base in Šiauliai, the Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday.

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Risk of forest fires remains high in Lithuania

May 24th

The risk of forest fires remains very high in most forests in Lithuania, foresters warns, and people are encouraged to be cautious during the upcoming weekend.

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‘Time for men to lead’ – Lithuanian MEP's comment draws wry response from presidential candidate

May 23rd

Former presidential candidate Valdemar Tomaševski, who dropped from the presidential race after the first round of voting, has said he wants Lithuania to elect a male president, drawing a wry response on social media from one of the two contenders for the post, Ingrida Šimonytė.

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Operation ‘Spring’, biggest Soviet deportation of 40,000 Lithuanians

May 23rd

On May 22, 1948, Soviet authorities began Operation ‘Vesna’. Over the course of two days, some 40,000 people from Lithuania were deported to Siberia; around a quarter of them were children. Those who survived and are alive today, recall hunger and humiliations.

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Measles cases drop in Lithuania as weather improves

May 23rd

Warm weather has led to a drop in measles cases in Lithuania, according to the Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC).

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Bank of Lithuania

V. Vasiliauskas: Central bank transparency bolsters market and public confidence

May 23rd

Open communication with market participants and the general public enhances the transmission of central bank policies and boosts their credibility, says Vitas Vasiliauskas, Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, who is currently on an...

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€140,000 fine imposed on UAB INVL Asset Management

May 23rd

By resolution of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, UAB INVL Asset Management was imposed a €140,000 fine for two legislative breaches identified during its inspection.

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Regulations on mystery shopping exercises

May 23rd

The Board of the Bank of Lithuania approved the regulations for the assessment of financial market participants through mystery shopping exercises. The exercise might be aimed at assessing financial services or products, including insurance and...

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€200,000 fine for insider dealing

May 21st

The Supervision Service of the Bank of Lithuania has concluded that Linas Strėlis, member of the board of AB Vilkyškių pieninė and AUGA group, AB, has used inside information to enter into transactions on the acquisition and sale of shares of AB...

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€25 thousand fine for trading during a closed period

May 21st

The Bank of Lithuania concluded that Julius Kvaraciejus, chairman of the board of AB Pieno žvaigždės, who had indirectly conducted a transaction in the said company’s shares during a closed period, breached the provisions of the EU Market Abuse...

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Delfi Business

Number of job vacancies down in country

May 24th

The number of registered job vacancies for salaried employees in Lithuania stood at 19,100 in the first quarter of this year, down by 1,000 vacancies from late March last year, the country's statistical service, Statistics Lithuania, said on Friday.

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Vilnius Airport waits for make over: 130 mln eur to be invested

May 23rd

Around 130 million euros will be invested into the expansion and reconstruction of Lithuania's largest Vilnius Airport over the next four years, until 2022, and annual revenue of Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports, LOU), the sate-run operator of three airports in Lithuania, is set to grow by around 43 percent to 63 million euros.

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Central banker vows to continue cooperating with parliament

May 23rd

Vitas Vasiliauskas, board chairman of the central Bank of Lithuania, has refrained to assess the ruling party's failed bit to adopt a parliamentary resolution on no-confidence in him, saying that the central bank will continue cooperation with the Seimas and other government institutions.

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Lithuania keeps increasing its production levels

May 23rd

Eurostat announces that industrial production fell down by 0.3% in euro area and 0.1% in EU28 In March 2019 compared with February 2019.

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Head of Financial Crime Investigation Service: Revolut might cause problems for Lithuania

May 23rd

The British fintech startup Revolut's activity in Lithuania might cause problems for the country, Antoni Mikulski, head of the Lithuania's Financial Crime Investigation Service, has warned.

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15min hands over to law enforcement info on journalist's data collection

May 23rd

The Lithuanian news website 15min.lt said on Wednesday it had handed over to law enforcement information about its sacked journalist Sarunas Cerniauskas' private activity related to information collection.

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Refinery returns 2 shipments of tainted Russian crude

May 23rd

Polish-owned Lithuanian crude refiner Orlen Lietuva has returned two shipments of Russian oil contaminated with chlorine compounds, the business daily Verslo Zinios reported on Thursday.

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Ergo Group exits Belarusian market

May 23rd

Germany's Ergo Group is exiting the insurance market in Belarus and is selling the shares of non-life insurance company Ergo Insurance Company.

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5 banks fined €1.07 billion for participating in cartel

May 23rd

In two settlement decisions, the European Commission has fined five banks for taking part in two cartels in the Spot Foreign Exchange market for 11 currencies - Euro, British Pound, Japanese Yen, Swiss Franc, US, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian Dollars, and Danish, Swedish and Norwegian crowns.

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Top court: Parliament's LRT probe panel breached Constitution

May 23rd

The Seimas of Lithuania breached the country's Constitution when it established a special commission to investigate activity of the public broadcaster LRT, the Constitutional Court has ruled on Thursday.

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Delfi Politics

More than 140 thousand cast ballots in 4 days of early voting

May 24th

Some 140,228 people, or 5.78 percent of all eligible voters, cast their ballots during four days of early voting in Lithuania's presidential runoff and the European Parliament election.

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Some 700 WWII victims might be buried at Air Base in Siauliai

May 23rd

The remains of around 700 World War II victims might be buried in the territory of Lithuania's Air Base in Siauliai, the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday.

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Politician from Klaipeda fined EUR 12,000 for defamation of Lithuanian partisan leader

May 23rd

Klaipeda court has imposed a fine of 12,000 euros on Viaceslav Titov, a local politician, for the defamation of the memory of Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, one of the leaders of Lithuania's anti-Soviet partisan resistance.

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Final results: almost 4 thousand votes separate Lithuanian presidential election frontrunners

May 23rd

The final results of the first round of Lithuania's presidential election put Ingrida Simonyte's lead over Gitanas Nauseda at 3,935 votes.

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Skvernelis survives party's confidence vote

May 23rd

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has survived a vote of no-confidence by the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union's political group in the Seimas, and the LFGU group has also changed its position and wants to stay in the ruling majority.

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Early voting in presidential runoff, EP election ends in Lithuania on Friday

May 24th

… is the last day in Lithuania when voters can vote early … 8 p.m. Voting at Lithuania';s embassies continues on … by the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, will face Gitanas … election committees are vying for Lithuania';s 11 seats in …

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Bank of Lithuania: 140,000 EUR fine imposed on UAB INVL Asset Management

May 23rd

… Board of the Bank of Lithuania, UAB INVL Asset Management … its inspection, informed Bank of Lithuania. UAB INVL Asset Management … provisions of the Republic of Lithuania Law on Collective Investment … out by the Bank of Lithuania. The inspection was conducted …

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The volume of construction work carried out in Lithuania increased by 14% in Q1 2019

May 23rd

o In I quarter 2019, the volume of construction work carried out in the country amounted to EUR 535.1 mln at current prices, and against the previous period, seasonally and calendar adjusted, increased by 14% (unadjusted – decreased by 40.6%). Over a …

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EUR 130 mln to be invested into Vilnius Airport over 4 years

May 23rd

… and reconstruction of Lithuania';s largest Vilnius Airport over the … of Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports, LOU), the sate-run … of three airports in Lithuania, is set to grow by … which are critical if Lithuania wants to expand its accessibility …

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Lithuanian pleads guilty to drunken disturbance on flight, fined RM12,000

May 23rd

SEPANG, May 23 — A Lithuanian man was fined RM12,000 …

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Baltic News Network

Lithuania: Nausėda and Šimonytė set to square off in Sunday’s runoff election

May 23rd

The nail-biter presidential election will produce late Sunday a new host of the presidential palace in Vilnius’ Daukantas square for next five years, but which of two candidates will be there, now only God knows.

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Week in Lithuania: PM clears no-confidence vote, top Court slaps LFGU, councillor fined for slander

May 19th

Last week, Lithuania suffered upset in 2019 Eurovision Song Contest; PM Saulius Skvernelis survived a vote of no-confidence by the ruling LFGU; the Constitutional Court ruled that the Seimas breached law in dealing with public broadcaster LRT.

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Vilnius prospects dim unless it clusters with Kaunas, says investment expert

May 16th

In the eyes of mayor investors, Vilnius’ prospects remain dim if it does not agglomerate. An investment expert suggests that the Lithuanian capital should expand and merge to an extent with Kaunas, the country’s second-largest city.

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Lithuania’s ruling party wants Skvernelis to continue as Prime Minister

May 15th

Saulius Skvernelis, the Lithuanian head of government, who failed to reach the runoff in the Lithuanian Presidential election and had pledged to step down from office, has received the support of his Union of Farmers and Greens in a confidence vote.

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Next Lithuanian President be elected in run-off between Šimonytė and Nausėda

May 13th

The Lithuanian presidential election has produced no clear winner. With ex-Finance Minister Ingrida Šimonytė and economist Gitanas Nausėda showing the best results, the two with face each other in a run-off later this month, while defeated Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has announced his resignation.

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Delfi Culture

Documentary on Lithuanian president to premiere in April

May 23rd

A new documentary about Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will be premiered in Lithuanian cinemas on April 12, the film's director and producer, Donatas Ulvydas, said here on Tuesday.

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Four out of five returning emigrants admit: they are driven home by the longing for their homeland and close relatives

May 23rd

As Great Britain prepares to leave the European Union (EU), fellow countrymen returning from emigration admit: the decision to return is determined both by psychological and emotional arguments, not by economic reasons or fear of the consequences of Brexit.

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Baltic jewelry show kicks off in Lithuania

May 23rd

The 16th International Baltic Jewelry Show titled Amber Trip kicked off here in Lithuania's capital Vilnius on Wednesday.

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Two Vilnius University Life Sciences Center researchers selected as section editors of prestigious journal

May 23rd

The latest edition of a journal “Current Opinion in Biotechnology” published by “Elsevier” was compiled by professor Saulius Klimašauskas and PhD Linas Mažutis from Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC). This edition, dedicated to Analytical Biotechnology, contains 21 reviews, five of them are written by the researchers from the VU LSC, a press release from the university states.

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Vilnius Airport cinema hall presents a new short film program for families

May 23rd

Film Spot LT – a unique cinema hall at Vilnius Airport presents an updated film program for families. Starting today, two new film programs will be screened at Film Spot LT, which is the first and only airport cinema hall in the Central and Eastern Europe. The cinema hall, which is located next to the Gate 2, operates free of charge and welcomes all passengers of Vilnius Airport to spend time before their flight watching Lithuanian films, a press release from Lithuanian Film Centre states.

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