Appeal

The Seimas has decided not to strip MP Vytautas Gapšys of his mandate despite his jail sentence for corruption.

Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says that the parliamentary opposition is manipulating the verdict of the Court of Appeal in the so-called MG Baltic case to harm both the Liberal Movement and the ruling majority.

Lithuanian teachers are fed up with low salaries that do not reflect the level of difficulty of their work, large numbers of children in classrooms, bureaucratic tasks, and heavy workloads. They have taken drastic measures to demand better conditions, such as climbing through windows of the Ministry...

On Thursday, parliament voted in favour of launching the impeachment procedure of MP Petras Gražulis and decided to address the Constitutional Court, which would ascertain if the MP breached the Constitution and violated his oath.

The Vilnius Regional Court is expected to rule on Thursday on an appeal by Roman Ruzhechko, a suspect in a Russian oil pipeline contamination probe, against his arrest in the Lithuanian capital.

Lithuania has turned to the Supreme Court of Sweden, appealing against Sweden's Court of Appeals' decision to uphold the Stockholm arbitration's 2016 ruling, unfavorable to Lithuania, in the country's dispute with Russian gas giant Gazprom.