Lithuanian Social Democrat MEP Vilija Blinkevičiūtė has been named the politician who best represents voters’ interests in the European Parliament, according to a recent survey. […]
Do Lithuania’s ethnic Russian citizens make integration into the society a priority or do they do quite the opposite, using the privileges of Lithuanian citizenship and leaning nevertheless toward Mother Russia? Is being Russian not just a question of blood and faith but also of identifying with Russian civilization and a fragmented nation that must be united? […]
The Council of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania is nominating its leader Valdemar Tomaševski to run for the post of Vilnius mayor, the politician himself confirmed to BNS on Wednesday. […]
If general elections were held now, 18.8 percent of people would vote for the Social Democratic Party (LSDP). […]
The Russian government’s statements about the allegedly bad situation of Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltic states are alarming, says Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė. She also thinks that some local politicians exaggerate problems of Lithuania’s ethnic minorities to make them appear worse than they actually are. […]
You cannot even imagine how painful it is for a real dzūkas [south-east Lithuanian] to see reports about people in Žemaitija [west Lithuania] picking mushrooms by hundreds and asking what to do with such wealth, while our pine forests, growing on the mainland sand dunes, are dry and bare from the summer heat. Only on the day of St. Bartholomew were we blessed with some all-day rain; after that rain it will be finally possible to go mushroom hunting. […]
All ethnic minorities should agree on the National Minority Law, says Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė, making it clear that the adoption of the law initiated by the former ruling party Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) is not envisaged in the agenda of parliament’s fall session. […]
After the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party has decided to withdraw from the ruling coalition, the party’s representatives will leave their posts in parliament and the government on 10 September, the party has decided. […]
Valdemar Tomaševski, the leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), says he has so far failed to persuade Jaroslav Neverovič, who was sacked from the post of energy minister earlier this week, into running for Vilnius mayor. […]
After the meeting of the Coalition political council, the leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) Valdemar Tomaševski announced that the party is withdrawing from the government. Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said that three parties remain in the Coalition, whereas, based on quotas, the energy ministers position will go to the Labour Party. […]
It seems that it’s not only Algirdas Butkevičius’s patience that Valdemar Tomaševski has exhausted. […]
The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), a Polish party that has been part of Lithuania’s ruling coalition, will not get any positions in the government, Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Monday. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius insisted on Wednesday he would not re-appoint Jaroslav Neverovič, the recently sacked Minister of Energy, if his party, the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), delegated him once again. […]
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