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Lukiskes Prison to be closed
Lukiskes Prison to be closed
A STROLL IN THE PRISON’S COURTYARD: President Dalia Grybauskaite visits Lukiskes Prison....
VILNIUS - On Jan. 26, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite was in prison. She visited the Lukiskes Prison, situated in the very heart of Vilnius. The prison was built in 1904. Then it was the biggest prison of the Russian Empire. The prison’s history is rich - political prisoners (some of them later became famous, or  infamous) - for example, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Felix Dzerzhinsky, godfather of the KGB) as well as many people who did not take part in any political activity but had fallen into disgrace with the occupational regimes suffered there. The priso...  Full story...
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 Jan 27, 2010 - Foreign Minister resigns...
Foreign Minister resigns
VILNIUS - On Jan. 21, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas presented a resignation letter to Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius. The latter was not in a very big hurry to confirm the resignation, giving Usackas the possibility to go to the European Union foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Jan. 25. It was his last trip in the post of foreign minister. Usackas said he was q...
 Jan 27, 2010 - Health care vice minister arrested...
Health care vice minister arrested
VILNIUS - On Jan. 21, Health Care Vice Minister Arturas Skikas was arrested by the Special Investigation Service, which carries out activities to detect and disclose corruption-related offenses such as corruption, bribery and abuse of power. There are reports that the Health Care Ministry is sinking in a bloodbath of corruption. The corruption case could be related to bribes for allowing illega...
 Jan 20, 2010 - Preparation for Lithuania’s leadership over the ...
Preparation for Lithuania’s leadership over the EU
VILNIUS - On Jan. 14, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister met with Dimitris Droutsas, alternate minister of foreign affairs of Greece. They discussed, among other things, Lithuania’s presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2013. Lithuania will be the first Baltic country getting such an enormous challenge for its state bureaucracy. The Lisbon Treaty, which is...
 Jan 13, 2010 - Grybauskaite’s courageous taste in art...
Grybauskaite’s courageous taste in art
VILNIUS - Last week Lithuanians discussed President Dalia Grybauskaite’s taste in art. This theme, for a couple of days, became the top and controversial news, provoking hundreds of comments on Lithuanian Internet sites. It appears that Grybauskaite has good taste in art, though the average Lithuanian was shocked by her choice. On Jan. 4, Lithuanian presidential palace workers hung a huge...
 Jan 13, 2010 - Secret agent’s death is under re-investigation...
Secret agent’s death is under re-investigation
VILNIUS - Last week, new controversial information about the mysterious death of Vytautas Pociunas, a Lithuanian secret service agent and diplomat, appeared. He died in Belarus in 2006. Algimantas Matulevicius, former chairman of the previous parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee told prosecutors that Pociunas probably was investigating the disappearance of many millio...
 Feb 03, 2010 - Some aspects of incorporation ...
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 Feb 03, 2010 - Lietuva in brief...
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 Feb 03, 2010 - Pedophilia case provokes stree...
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 Jan 27, 2010 - Governing Law, Place and Form ...
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 Jan 27, 2010 - Lietuva in brief...
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 Jan 20, 2010 - Corporate Income Tax Rates for...
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 Jan 20, 2010 - Lietuva in brief...
“The development of energy network infrastructure and creation of a common competitive EU-wide energy market should be among the main priorit...
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