President Dalia Grybauskaitė had a bilateral meeting in Kiev with the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych recently. In Kharkov, the President met with Mikhail Dobkin, the Governor of Kharkov Region, and visited former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in hospital.

The President met with Yulia Tymoshenko at the hospital in Kharkiv

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In the long awaited season showdown it turned out Rytas was the no-show and Žalgiris walks away with all the season’s honours.

After their sixth loss to Žalgiris for the year, and ninth in a row, the team of green is now caring for all three domestic trophies as well as the regional BBL silverware.

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Text: Ray Vysniauskas

The Lithuanian government issued a press release on the signing of an energy agreement recently. This can best be seen as an attempt to quell any doubts among potential partners that may arise in the medium term future with general elections due in October, and polls showing that the current government has little chance of being re-elected.

Photo: BFL/Tomas Lukšys

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With Lithuania’s next general election due in October, the parliament has shown rare solidarity in signing a defence policy agreement ahead of the NATO summit to be held in Chicago from 20 – 21 May 2012.

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TeliaSonera has agreed to acquire 7.87% of the shares in TEO LT from East Capital for €0.637 (LTL2.20) per share and will thereby increase its ownership to 76.16% (from the current 68.29%).

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Lithuania has done its best over the last five or six years to ignore the issue of secret CIA Prisons in Lithuania, but the Soviet-era tactic of ignoring it until it goes away is just not working.

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Belarus will reduce the number of border guard troops on its borders with the EU.

The change is in response to increased EU sanctions against Belarus, in a tit-for-tat game of politics.

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The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its dismay about the decision by the Swiss Government to re-establish limitations for certain categories of residential permits for specific EU citizens, including Lithuanians.

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First the good news - Lietuvos Rytas played their best game of the season recently to defeat much more highly fancied Khimki in securing a 2 - 1 series win and a spot in the Final Four of the VTB United League.

An added bonus is that Rytas will also host the Final Four weekend in Vilnius, having a home court advantage in its race for the title against Moscow CSKA, UNICS and Lokomotiv-Kuban.

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Four months ago Lithuania adopted new laws in protection against domestic violence.

In that time police have received nearly 10,000 reports of domestic violence and have opened over 3,300 investigations, reported News Radio.

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On 17 April the Lithuanian parliament - Seimas - failed to carry a motion bringing forward the next national elections.

The bill was supported by 50 member, 24 voted against the proposal and there were 25 abstentions. A three fifth vote of members, or 85 votes were needed to carry the amendment.

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Lithuania Post recently introduced an electric car for the provision of postal services. Based on estimations made by the company, the electric car will make savings of several thousand litas per year.

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This year, the sum of LTL915.9 million will be allocated from the State Budget for the development of the Lithuanian road network and implementation of traffic safety measures.

Together with EU support funding, which will make up LTL270 million, the total investment into the national road network will be almost LTL1.2 billion.

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A new oil field discovered by Manifoldas UAB in the surroundings of Ližiai and Laigiai villages in Klaipėda district, Endriejavas region, has already been approved and entered in the Register of Mineral Reserves of the country.

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Last year, one fifth, or 20% of employees in Lithuania earned LTL800 or less per month, more than half of them worked part-time.

Statistics Lithuania announced that in October 2011, compared to October 2010, the number of employees who earned the minimum monthly wage (MMW) or received a wage of LTL800 or less, including individual enterprises, accounted for 20.8% (or 215,600) employees and decreased by 0.3%. More than half of these employees (114,200) worked part-time.

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Lithuania is ever closer to constructing a new nuclear plant in Visaginas after signing a concession agreement with Hitachi Ltd recently.

Photo: BFL/Tomas Lukšas

The agreement, covering the right to design, construct, operate and then decommission the plant, is still subject to Finance Ministry examination and Parliamentary approval before a final sign-off is expected in late June.

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Lietuvos Rytas relinquished an 18 point lead to arch-rival Žalgiris and lost 86 - 81 in their regular season LKL encounter last night.

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Lithuania will switch to daylight saving time on Sunday 25 March by setting clocks forward one hour at 3 am local time.

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Lietuvos Rytas started its quest for Eurocup gold, and a Euroleague ticket, with a win over Donetsk in Vilnius last night.

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Exports in January 2012 were worth LTL5.6 billion and imports LTL6.4 billion and the foreign trade deficit was LTL0.8 billion according to Statistics Lithuania, based on non-final data obtained from customs declarations and Intrastat reporting data.

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Round up and photos of two contrasting March 11 marches.

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Prior to the Seimas' spring session, President Dalia Grybauskaitė and members of the Board of the Seimas traditionally meet to discuss key legislative initiatives.

Photo courtesy Press Service of the President

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