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Seimas speaker does not abandon dual citizenship bid

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, called on May 15, for continued efforts to amend the Constitution to allow dual citizenship to ...

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Ruling party mulls changing general election date

The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) is to propose to change the date of parliamentary elections for earlier after the country ...

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PM survives party's confidence vote

PM Saulius Skvernelis survived on May 14 a vote of no-confidence by the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union's (LFGU) political group ...

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Lietuvos Rytas daily to be issued 3 times per week

Lithuanian company Lietuvos Rytas, operating one of the largest media groups in the country, plans to issue its daily newspaper with the same na...

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Councillor fined for defamation of partisan leader

A Klaipeda court imposed on May 14  a fine of 12,000 euros on Viaceslav Titov, a local politician, for the defamation of the memory of Adol...

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Seimas LRT probe panel breached Constitution

The ruling LFGU-orchestrated Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania breached the country's Constitution when it established a special commission t...

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Central bank chief survives no-confidence vote

The Lithuanian parliament did not pass a resolution expressing no-confidence in the central bank governor, Vitas Vasiliauskas, on May 14. Forty-...

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Columbian convicted for drug smuggling unlawfully released

Prosecutors suspect that a Columbian citizen convicted in Lithuania for drug smuggling has been unlawfully released from a prison. The Kaunas Re...

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Banker-turned-politician wins Lithuanian presidency, hints of softer rhetoric toward Russia

With all the votes from the country’s 1 972 polling districts tallied on the late evening of May 26, Gitanas Nauseda, who ran the election...

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Lithuanian govt mulls turning to Constitutional Court over LRT funding

VILNIUS – Lithuania's government is considering turning to the Constitutional Court over the funding of the national radio and televis...

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