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On Sunday night, the mayors of all sixty municipalities were revealed: a third of them were elected during the first round, with the rest in the second round. Of the sixty mayors, more than half were re-elected for another term.
Visvaldas Matijošaitis is celebrating his victory in Kaunas after the first round, however in the other big cities, a fierce struggle over the post of mayor is only beginning.
Something special should be said on a morning such as this. Indeed, elections, which are the most important for most, were just held. Firstly, important because mayors and municipal council members are the closest to the people of all the branches of government. And second, these elections will chan...
With little time left to the municipal and direct mayoral elections, political party leaders are pondering, which city and region bastions they will hold on to and where they have chances to break through. The Social Democrats, Liberal Movement and Order and Justice Party remain modest both about in...
Politics does not stand in place, change is a near constant even if the changes are often insignificant. New political parties emerge, draw voters for a few years and then vanish. The Way of Courage, the National Revival Party, A. Paulauskas’ New Union, the Modern Christian Democrat Union, the Lithu...
On 3 November 2018, the Government of Japan announced that Mr. Vytautas Grubliauskas was conferred with The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contribution as the Mayor of Klaipėda City to building friendly relationship between Japan and Lithuania, especially in the fields of cu...
A cadet school will open in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda next September.
The fire that on Tuesday broke out on a ferry on route from Germany to Lithuania's Klaipėda has been put out and there are no reports about people injured during the incident, Lithuania's Navy says.
The City Council of Klaipėda voted on Thursday to turn to court over the impeachment of Viačeslav Titov, a councilor representing the Union of Russians in Lithuania, who has accused Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas of killing innocent civilians.
Authorities in Lithuania's western port of Klaipėda on Thursday decided to commemorate Lithuanian partisan leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in the city.
The Council of Klaipėda City Municipality on Thursday voted in favor of starting impeachment proceedings against Viačeslav Titov, a councilor representing the Russian Alliance, over his statements about a Lithuanian partisan leader.
Viačeslav Titov, a councilor representing the Russian Alliance in the Lithuanian western port of Klaipėda, on Thursday got flour-bombed by Audrius Vaišvila, a councilor representing the Liberal Movement, during a protest over Titov's statements about a Lithuanian partisan leader.
Vytautas Grubliauskas, mayor of Lithuania's western port of Klaipėda, said on Tuesday he had collected the necessary number of signatures to launch impeachment proceedings against Viačeslav Titov, a councilor representing the Russian Alliance, after he accused a Lithuanian partisan leader of killing...
Lithuania's law enforcement said on Monday it had opened an investigation into the statements by Viačeslav Titov, a councilor in the port of Klaipėda, on Lithuanian partisan leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas.
Lithuanian MP Simonas Gentvilas is challenging Vytautas Grubliauskas, mayor of the western port of Klaipėda, and will seek to become the liberals' candidate for the port's mayor, according to media reports.
European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis is visiting Lithuania this week.
The opposition Lithuanian Liberal Movement is choosing is candidate to run for Lithuanian president next year from among seven members of the party and expects to name him by April.
Municipality of the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda intends to found a School for Sea Cadets.
