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Controversy over alleged young female Islamist ter...
Controversy over alleged young female Islamist terrorist
TERRORIST?: Egle Kusaite....
VILNIUS - Egle Kusaite, the 21-year-old Lithuanian young woman and Muslim convert, will stay locked in the Vilnius Lukiskes Prison, stated the Vilnius court on July 22. It took two sittings, on July 20 and July 22, for the Vilnius court to decide to prolong Kusaite’s pre-trial imprisonment for two months, on the basis that Kusaite can try to hide if released before her trial because she has the possibility of receiving a sentence of life imprisonment for planning her suicide bombing in Russia. This young woman from Klaipeda was arrested by the Lithuanian State Security Department ...  Full story...
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  Annual leave in Lithuania...    Lietuva in brief - 2010-07-29...    Day of thanksgiving to the U.S....    Controversy over alleged young female Islamist terrorist...    Mortgage considerations...    Lietuva in brief - 2010-07-22...    Mission Siberia...    Grybauskaite’s first year in office...    Lietuva in brief - 2010-07-14...    World Cup madness...  
 Jul 21, 2010 - Mission Siberia...
Mission Siberia
VILNIUS - On July 16, 20 young Lithuanians arrived at the Vilnius Railway Station, back from their mission in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region. Lithuania’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavicius and other officials welcomed the participants of the expedition Mission Siberia 2010. During two weeks in Siberia, the young Lithuanians cleared the cemeteries of Soviet-era Lithuan...
 Jul 21, 2010 - Grybauskaite’s first year in office...
Grybauskaite’s first year in office
VILNIUS - On July 12, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite celebrated her first year in office with a press conference in  thepresidential palace. During a week after this, political analysts were evaluating her one-year rule. There is no doubt about one thing: the electorate loves her. Her positive rating from election day has remained at the same level – 85 percent of Lithuanian...
 Jul 14, 2010 - 600-year anniversary of the battle of Grunwald...
600-year anniversary of the battle of Grunwald
Lithuania celebrates the 600-year anniversary of the battle of Grunwald (“Zalgiris” in Lithuanian). All kinds of state-run institutions across Lithuania held special exhibitions to commemorate the battle, which in July 1410 stopped the 200-year long German crusades in Lithuania. Lithuania’s independence became unquestionable in Europe after that battle. Even more than that: Li...
 Jul 07, 2010 - A president’s funeral...
A president’s funeral
VILNIUS - On July 1, Algirdas Brazauskas, the Lithuanian president from 1993-1998, was buried. The gun-carriage carrying his coffin moved at a slow speed from the Presidential Palace to Antakalnis Cemetery. The coffin was followed by Brazauskas’ widow and his twin daughters from his first marriage. Many people went out to the street to watch the procession, which went through central Viln...
 Jun 30, 2010 - Mockus’ loss to Santos in Colombia’s presidential ...
Mockus’ loss to Santos in Colombia’s presidential election
VILNIUS - On June 20, Lithuanian-origin Antanas Mockus was defeated by the governing Social National Unity Party candidate Juan Manuel Santos in the final round of Colombia’s presidential elections. Santos received 69 percent of the votes while Green Party candidate Mockus got 28 percent. There was no big difference in essence between both candidates, but there was a significant differenc...
 Jun 30, 2010 - President Brazauskas dead...
President Brazauskas dead
VILNIUS - On July 26, President Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas, 77, died in his home in the prestigious residential area of Turniskes, where President Dalia Grybauskaite and President Valdas Adamkus were his neighbors. The news about the passing of the almost mythological man-epoch came as no surprise, because Brazauskas’ cancer was the top story in the Lithuanian media for many months. A ye...
 Jun 16, 2010 - Grybauskaite’s first state of the nation address...
Grybauskaite’s first state of the nation address
VILNIUS - On June 8, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite gave her first state of the nation address in the Lithuanian parliament, to give an overview of the situation in internal and foreign politics of the state, as required by the Constitution. Her speech lasted only 26 minutes and was the shortest state of the nation address in the history of modern Lithuania. Grybauskaite’s speech...
 Jun 10, 2010 - One million more Lithuanian citizens?...
One million more Lithuanian citizens?
VILNIUS - During the entire last week, the Lithuanian parliament discussed the issue of Lithuanian citizenship and passed a draft on June 4 significantly expanding the possibility to have dual citizenship. The final vote on the issue is expected in two weeks. The new law could theoretically result in one million more Lithuanian citizens. Although Lithuania has never had problems with the citize...
 Jul 28, 2010 - Annual leave in Lithuania...
ECOVIS Miškinis, Kvainauskas ir partneriai advokatų kontora. Annual leave is paid time off work granted by employers to employees to be...
 Jul 28, 2010 - Lietuva in brief - 2010-07-29...
Russia and Lithuania signed a memorandum on interregional and cross-border cooperation to promote trade and the development of infrastructure along...
 Jul 28, 2010 - Day of thanksgiving to the U.S...
VILNIUS - On July 23, the 70th anniversary of the Welles Declaration was marked in Washington Square, in Vilnius. On that day in 1940, a month afte...
 Jul 21, 2010 - Mortgage considerations...
ECOVIS Miškinis, Kvainauskas ir partneriai advokatų kontora (Continued from last issue) The mortgage of land extends to constru...
 Jul 21, 2010 - Lietuva in brief - 2010-07-22...
President Dalia Grybauskaite has returned amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code to the Seimas for reconsideration as the amendments allowed gap...
 Jul 14, 2010 - Lietuva in brief - 2010-07-14...
Supporters of Drasius Kedys have held a protest campaign near the Prosecutor General’s Office to demand an explanation from Prosecutor Genera...
 Jul 14, 2010 - World Cup madness...
According to a survey by SIC Gallup Media Survey/TNS, 77 percent of Lithuanians, or 2.5 million people, were watching the football passions of the ...
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