RIGA - Swiss authorities are not treating the attack staged by a 17-year-old Latvian national last Sunday as terrorism, LETA was told at the Latvian Security Police. After media reports of a Latvian teenager’s arrest in Switzerland, the Security Police...
VILNIUS – Russia's president has awarded the Medal of Alexander Pushkin, a state decoration, to Valerij Tretjakov, editor-in-chief of Lithuania's Russian-language weekly newspaper Litovskij Kurjer. The decree on awarding nearly 30 individuals was signed on Oct. 9. Tretjakov said the award came as a surprise, pledging to accept it. "I believe I was granted it for preservation of the Russian culture and language, as I a...
TALLINN - Investing in research and innovation is not a luxury, but a necessary step in maintaining the competitiveness of the European Union, Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas said in his opening remarks at an international conference at the Tallinn Creative Hub on Thursday. "If the funding of research does not increase, the competitiveness of the European Union will decrease and we will lose in the competition for talents. Furthermore, many technology-based an...
According to Eurostat, the EU agency of statistics, the Lithuanian population's decline at 11,3% in 2015 was record-high among the EU member states last year. What has to be done to halt exodus from Lithuania?
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