Belarusian activist Olga Karach appealed against the Migration Department’s decision not to grant her asylum because of her links to Russian intelligence.
August252023
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.
August242023
President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda, who is paying a visit to Ukraine, says the death of Wagner mercenary group’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin changes little in terms of security threats faced by Lithuania as one of the group’s goals is destabilisation of the situation in the region.
August242023
Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, on behalf of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and on her own behalf, has congratulated Ukraine and its people on the occasion of Independence Day, the Office of the Seimas said in a press release.
August242023
Teachers in Lithuania intend to hold a strike demanding for higher wages and better working conditions, but Minister of Education, Science and Sport Gintautas Jakštas describes their demands as unrealistic.
August232023
The National Security Commission is considering prohibiting some Lithuanians from travelling to Russia and Belarus due to safety concerns. If regulations are amended, this would apply not only on state officials, officers and soldiers, but also on individuals working with classified information.
August232023
Speaking at the International Crimea Platform Summit in Kyiv on Wednesday, President Gitanas Nausėda emphasised that the consequences of Russia’s illegal occupation and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula are still painfully felt today and that lasting peace is impossible without the return of control over Crimea to Ukraine, stated the press service of the president.
August232023
On Wednesday, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia mark the 84th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the 34th anniversary of the Baltic Way. On this occasion, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė has highlighted the importance of these dates for the history of Lithuania.
August232023
President Gitanas Nausėda has arrived for an unannounced visit to Kyiv, his office reports.
August232023
The Lithuanian Education Employee’s Trade Union (LŠDPS) on Tuesday set the dates for the upcoming teachers’ strike, which will be held in September.
August222023
The Migration Department recently refused to grant political asylum to Belarusian activist Olga Karach, head of the international centre for civil initiatives Our House (Nash Dom) Belarus & Lithuania, after the State Security Department (VSD) concluded that she poses a threat to Lithuania’s national security because she cooperated with a Russian intelligence agency. On Tuesday, Karach held a press conference denying her ties to Russian or Belarusian intelligence, and expressing a wish to reside in Lithuania.
August222023
A commission set up by the Ministry of Culture has warned the chief of the State Language Inspectorate (VKI) for his statements referring to Polish signs in Vilnius district as “marking Poland's historical occupation territory”.
August222023
President Gitanas Nausėda will decide on revoking the citizenship of figure skater Margarita Drobiazko, who lives in Russia, after hearing all the sides, a chief adviser to the president says.
August222023
The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) said on Monday it had finalised the public procurement procedure and signed a contract for a feasibility study on online voting. The aim of the study is to assess the security and reliability issues and to anticipate possible threats to online voting, the VRK says.
August222023
An online petition has been created urging former president of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė to stand in as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. Yet the former president’s representatives says that Grybauskaitė has not changed her mind and will not run for office for a third time.
August212023
The presidency has called for speeding up the adoption of a plan to implement the civil resistance strategy, the LRT public radio reports.