As two trade unions of schoolteachers plan strikes demanding for higher wages and better working conditions, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė has confirmed that salaries would be raised in two stages next year.
August312023
August312023
Leader of the Freedom Party Aušrinė Armonaitė has announced that the party will nominate a candidate in 2024 presidential elections because incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda has not shown enough leadership and his voice has lacked on key issues.
August302023
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania will summon the apostolic nuncio after Pope Francis’ statements about “great Mother Russia”, which caused international outcry amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
August302023
Vilnius City Municipality was initially reluctant to disclose information about severance pay transferred to Mindaugas Pakalnis, former chief architect of Vilnius, yet it later transpired that he received payment from both the municipality and one of its companies.
August292023
The Lithuanian man who abducted his daughter and fled to the Kaliningrad region has been released after being detained on Sunday by Russian officers, the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) reports.
August292023
On Sunday, a father kidnapped a daughter from a mother and fled from Lithuania to Russia across a river in a rubber boat. Russia has refused to return the kidnapped toddler to Lithuania. Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė says authorities are working actively to have the child returned.
August292023
Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is critical of the idea of Poland and the Baltic States of possible closure of borders with Belarus. She says open borders are vital in order for Belarusians to flee from the Alexander Lukashenko regime.
August292023
Foreign Minister says in absentia conviction of Lithuanian judges yet another provocation by Kremlin
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says a Moscow court’s decision to arrest the three Lithuanian judges who passed verdict in the January 13th case is yet another attempt by the Kremlin to stir up the tensions.
August292023
The Lithuanian and German chiefs of defence met on Monday to discuss the progress of a plan to station a brigade in Lithuania.
August282023
President Gitanas Nausėda met with the Chief of Defence of Germany, General Carsten Breuer, on Monday to discuss the security situation in the region, military cooperation between Lithuania and Germany, and strengthening NATO’s eastern flank, the presidency said in a press release.
August282023
A man who kidnapped his daughter and fled to the Kaliningrad region on Sunday is allegedly a citizen of Russia, says the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC).
August282023
The Ministry of the Interior will propose to the Government to consider closing two more checkpoints at the border with Belarus. On Monday, Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė is visiting Warsaw, to meet with Polish, Latvian and Estonian counterparts to discuss border security amid the continuing migrant crisis caused by Belarus and the presence of Wagner Group in Belarus.
August282023
On 27 August, a father kidnapped a one-year-old daughter from a mother in Lithuania and crossed a river in a rubber boat to Russia’s Kaliningrad region, where both he and the toddler were detained.
August282023
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė does not rule out that the Lithuanian Parliament may fail to adopt the draft law on civil union in the remaining term of office.
August252023
Belarusian activist Olga Karach appealed against the Migration Department’s decision not to grant her asylum because of her links to Russian intelligence.
August252023
The leader of the opposition Farmers and Greens, Ramūnas Karbauskis, believes the opposition will continue its efforts to interpellate right-wing ministers in the new political season set to start in two weeks. Almost all the ministers in the Cabinet headed by Ingrida Šimonytė deserve this procedure, the politician claims.
August252023
Almost one million packs of illegal cigarettes were seized at the border with Belarus a few days ago, the Lithuanian Customs said on Friday. The cigarettes were disguised as a load of polyester fibre in transit to Poland.
August252023
National Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas has been awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, third class, by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who signed the respective decree on Thursday.
August252023
Lithuania’s First Lady Diana Nausėdienė on Thursday attended the family festival held on Ukraine’s Independence Day at the Ukraine Centre in Vilnius, which had been opened on the initiative of Lithuanian and Ukrainian first ladies.
August242023
Opposition MP Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė of the Farmers and Greens proposes to criminalise incest, including a punishment of up to 6 years imprisonment.