On 11 March 1990, 50 years of Soviet occupation came to an end
Here are some of the more puzzling rules as Europeans settle for another winter holiday season overshadowed by the pandemic threat
Flanked by divided NATO allies, the US walks a tightrope over a potential third world war
A Lithuanian company says it has frozen publication of the local version of <em>The Simpsons</em> comic after a fine for advertising Duff beer.
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/ 1 December 2010
Ten people have died in Poland and Lithuania as temperatures fell drastically across Central Europe in the passed week.
Deep beneath a forest in western Lithuania, visitors can step back in time to the Cold War arms race.
The Austrian national rugby team tried to get over their 48-0 defeat by Lithuania by staging a mass striptease in the capital Vilnius late on Saturday, only to find they had been caught on video and put on the internet. The video, put out by a blogger on social community website Virb, showed a group of 20 men singing and stripping off their clothes.
Lithuania’s government fell apart on Wednesday after Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas and his whole Cabinet announced their resignation following the defection of the largest party in the coalition. ”The situation today is such that I have to step down,” he told reporters. Under Lithuanian law, if the prime minister quits the entire government has to resign.
Two thieves who tried to rob two elderly women in the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda, thinking they were easy prey, got more than they bargained for when the elder of the two victims, aged 93, valiantly defended herself in an unusual fashion, a press report said on Wednesday.
A Lithuanian brother and sister who spent almost three days frozen in a block of ice have been rewarded for their "brave" feat by the government, a television report said on Thursday. Circus veterans Arvydas and Diana Gaiciunai were awarded 5 000 litas (about R11 100) each and given gifts by the prime minister on Wednesday.
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/ 1 February 2005
Organisers of the Rally of Visaginas on defended themselves on Monday, saying safety precautions were adequate for the weekend event despite a crash which killed one bystander and left nine others hospitalised. Tomas Baltramiejunas veered off the road and crashed into an area for spectators on Saturday.
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/ 11 December 2004
For years, pipelines from the former Soviet Union have shipped the prosaic necessities of oil and gas to western Europe. But now smugglers have developed their own pipeline network for a more potent fuel — moonshine. Border guards in Lithuania have unearthed a lengthy pipeline that was intended to convey illicit alcohol.