Chairwoman of the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) Jolanta Petkevičienė has announced that she is resigning. She made the announcement while answering questions from the opposition at the Seimas' hall of sittings.
March292023
March292023
The Seimas has decided not to have a parliamentary inquiry into a possible information leak to ex-MP Kristijonas Bartoševičius.
March292023
President Gitanas Nausėda on Tuesday addressed participants of the conference of the Association of Lithuanian Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Crafts, the presidency announces.
March292023
On the occasion of the anniversary of Lithuania’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, speaker of the Seimas, says that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has once again shown that the people of Lithuania made a truly far-sighted and strategically correct choice, stated the press service of the Seimas.
March292023
On Tuesday, Politico published an article stating that some EU countries were allegedly questioning Estonia’s calculations for the reimbursement of weapons donated to Ukraine.
March292023
Use and installation of the TikTok app is to be banned from smartphones issued by the Estonian state, to officials, outgoing Minister of IT and Foreign Trade Kristjan Järvan told daily Eesti Päevaleht (EPL), reports public broadcaster ERR.
March282023
An initiative is emerging in parliament to probe potentially opaque and unlawful activities of the State Security Department (VSD) during the 2019 presidential election campaign.
March282023
Lithuania held the Baltic Military Conference on 23-24 March. One of the leading security and defence conferences pulled together scholars, diplomats and the military for a joint debate on the security situation in the eastern flank of NATO.
March282023
Lithuanian president’s chief adviser on national security, Kęstutis Budrys, says Russia’s threats to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus is not propaganda because preparation for that has been observed for some time and this should not be linked solely to the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius this July.
March272023
A proposal has been registered in parliament to hold the referendum on multiple citizenship in May 2024.
March272023
Tauragė County Police Headquarters is carrying out a pre-trial investigation into voter bribery and suspicions have been made against Kęstas Komskis, former mayoral candidate in Pagėgiai municipality in 2023 local elections that took place on 5 and 19 March.
March272023
A modern surveillance system now covers Lithuania’s entire border with Belarus stretching 678.82 km.
March272023
Twelve migrants attempted to access Lithuania illegally via Belarus on 24-26 March.
March272023
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania is closely following the situation regarding the statement on Russia’s plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, the MFA stated Saturday night.
March272023
Prime Minister of Lithuania Ingrida Šimonytė has not yet revealed whether she is going to run for president in 2024 or not.
March252023
The Ministry of National Defence is devoting increasingly more attention to Lithuania’s military infrastructure to meet national and allied needs and to contribute to the modernisation of the Armed Forces.
March252023
If the elections were held the coming Sunday, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) and the Union of Democrats For Lithuania would secure most of the votes, a public opinion poll carried out by Baltijos Tyrimai for the LRT public news portal at the end of February shows.
March242023
Despite the opposition’s efforts to boycott amendments to the Law on Citizenship, the Seimas passed the amended bill on Thursday. The amendments stipulate that an individual who was granted Lithuanian citizenship by way of exception would be stripped of it for posing a threat to national security.
March242023
Mayor-elect of Vilnius city Valdas Benkunskas, a representative of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), had proposed the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) to form a coalition with the TS-LKD at Vilnius City Municipal Council.
March242023
President Gitanas Nausėda is participating in the European Council meeting in Brussels. On Thursday afternoon, the EU leaders discussed support for Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine participated in the meeting remotely.