Newspaper readers across the Baltics may see similar newspaper layouts, the same garish eye-catchy headlines and even some of the same article topics, writes Linas Jegelevicius for the European Journalism Centre. But that’s where the similarity ends. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania may be tiny countries …
The EU’s recommended deadline of 2012 for switching of analogue TV broadcasts was met by 22 of the 27 member states, according to the recently published 2012 Yearbook from the European Audiovisual Observatory. In 2012, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovakia and the UK completed the …
Excerpt from report by Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos Rytas. [Report by Aida Murauskaite, Marius Jokubaitis, Martynas Cerkauskas, Sigita Puryte, Rasa Stundziene: "Ukio Bank Has Collapsed: Neither President Grybauskaite Nor Zalgiris's Name Have Helped"] It is not likely that Ukio Bank [Ukio Bankas], which has stumbled, will …
The suspension of Lithuania’s Ukio Bankas 14 months after Snoras Bankas AB’s bankruptcy will further erode confidence in the Baltic nation’s banking industry and may hurt liquidity, Moody’s Investors Service said, according to a Bloomberg article. You can read all of the article here.
The Lithuania Tribune and DELFI, the largest online news portal in the Baltic States is happy to announce partnership. The Lithuania Tribune today commenced operating a mirrored news portal of DELFI in order to bring Lithuania’s news in English to DELFI’s readers via the site …
The Lithuania Tribune is the leading and most comprehensive online publication for news about Lithuania in English. The news portal has a worldwide readership. In Lithuania, the news portal is a main reference for foreign diplomats, international business people, tourists and the expatriate community residing …
For almost a year now, China has been reading the latest news about Lithuania in its native language. Photos of Lithuanian politicians next to Chinese characters seem at least strange. “But why not?” says Ruslanas Iržikevičius, developer of Lithuanian news portal, delivering Lithuanian news in …
Some 9.5 million litas (EUR 2.8 mln) from the state budget will be earmarked to Lithuanian movie projects this year, up by nearly 3 million litas year-on-year, director of the Lithuanian Film Center Rolandas Kvietkauskas said on Tuesday. “We hope that the increase in film …
Public trust in the media is now at the lowest level in Lithuania over the past 15 years, however, the indicator is within the European Union (EU) average, sociologist Vladas Gaidys said on Saturday in comment of a fresh poll. According to the survey carried …
A demand by a Polish ministry to return part of a grant may terminate publishing of a semimonthly Lithuanian-language magazine Ausra that has been in circulation for more than 50 years. According to Lietuvos Zinios daily, the magazine is in danger after Poland’s Ministry of …
Producer and director Linas Ryškus has become the new CEO of Lietuvos Rytas TV. He has taken over the position from the journalist Edmundas Jakilaitis, reported lrytas.lt. “This television chose the difficult path of creating high quality intellectual content. However, the work was done …
Internet access and use is widespread amongst the EU population, reports EUROSTAT. In the EU27, more than three quarters of households had access to the internet in 2012, compared with just under half in 2006. The proportion of households who have a broadband internet connection has increased …
Christmas gig: ALINA ORLOVA art factory LOFTAS, Vilnius 12.20, from 7 pm Alina Orlova is a Lithuanian sung poetry singer and musician. She is of mixed Polish-Russian heritage. She is extremely popular in whole Eastern Europe and most of the time she is on tour. …
Authors: Inga Springe, Sallija Benfelde, Miks Salu Published in Re:Baltica on 11 April In the nineties he was being hounded by irate depositors and the Prosecutor’s Office and was even forced to leave Latvia, but he still returned and created a media empire, which has …
Leonids Jakobsons, a Latvian journalist who reportedly leaked to the public the e-mails of Nils Ushakovs, Mayor of Riga, was attacked yesterday in central Riga and shot several times, bbn.ee reports. He survived the attack, has been hospitalised and his life is not in danger. …
Today, hardly anyone recalls that the quasi-legal press of Sąjūdis, the 1980s Lithuanian liberation movement, had a darker side to it, in addition to the legend-like image of the first breaker of Soviet omertà. This side is less impressive, less liberating, less permeated with the …
Lithuania’s national Eurovision pick, that concluded last Saturday with victory for Donatas Montvydas a.k.a. Donny Montell, has had its fair share of intrigue. One of them involves a misunderstanding over the composition of the jury that was to decide who would be going to Baku …
Suspicions that Donatas Montvydas, one of the favourite candidates to repsresent Lithuania in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, might have copied his song collapsed. Such accusations were refuted by Rolf Lovland himself, author of the original song “secret Garden” that Montvydas, who sometimes goes by …
Donatas Montvydas, sometimes going by his international stage name Donny Montell, was a definite favourite in Lithuanian pick for the Eurovision Song Contest. However, his chances of going to Azerbaijan in May might be somewhat upset by accusations of plagiarism, 15min.lt reported on 29 February. …
Online news portal 15min.lt takes a new step forward – from now on it becomes available in English and Russian. English-language section of 15min.lt is accessible at 15min.lt/en and Russian-language – 15min.lt/ru. “We do not expect to make profit, but we believe and perceive it …
