Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis has called on the European Union to return to discussions about sending a military peacekeeping mission to protect the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, which is currently held by Russian forces. “We have never been so close to a nuclear disaster, as we are now. Just regretting the situation…
The Financial Crimes Investigation Service (FNTT) has denied Lithuanian Railways (LTG) a general authorisation to receive payments for the transit of sanctioned goods between mainland Russia and its Kaliningrad exclave and will look into each request on a case-by-case basis. The FNTT says it cannot grant the general authorisation requested by LTG to receive and…
Turto Bankas (Property Bank), Lithuania’s centralised public property management company, was hit by a cyberattack on August 30, which briefly knocked out its external websites. The company believed it was a response to its “putinOut” campaign. The websites turtas.lt and valstybesturtas.lt were down between 12:30 and 13:00 as a result of a distributed denial of…
Work is getting underway to refit HMS Quorn, a former British Royal Navy mine-hunting vessel purchased by Lithuania. The ship is expected to be ready for service with the Lithuanian Navy in two years. The Lithuanian Defence Ministry, which acquired HMS Quorn from the UK Ministry of Defence under a contract signed in April 2020,…
Annual inflation in Lithuania hit 21.1% in August, according to preliminary estimates by Statistics Lithuania. The main factors behind inflation were growing prices of housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuel goods and services, foodstuffs and non-alcoholic beverages, transport goods and services. The monthly change in consumer prices was 0.6% in August compared to July.…
Eyeing the upcoming heating season, churches in Lithuania are also preparing ways to cut costs. “Heating bills from 2021 have left us with a large debt and we have asked to be allowed to pay it off in installments before the next season,” says Andrius Nenenas, pastor of Vilnius Bernardine Church. Last year, during the…
State-owned office buildings are expected to cut their energy consumption by up to 1.5 million euros. Turto Bankas (Property Bank), the manager of Lithuanian state-owned properties, is launching an energy-saving initiative titled “putinOut” in which around 500 properties, mostly housing state institutions, are encouraged to cut their energy consumption by at least 10%. The initiative,…