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Lithuania's elite sees Darius Jauniškis, director of the State Security Department (VSD), as being the most influential among the country's civil servants and lawyers, Delfi.lt reported on Monday.

Dainius Žalimas, president of Lithuania's Constitutional Court, has called Russia's decision to launch an investigation against Lithuanian judges and prosecutors working on the January 13 case "a parody of justice".

A politician should not continue working in the parliament under the rule-of-law after breaching his oath of office, Dainius Žalimas, the president of the Lithuanian Constitutional Court, said after the parliament voted against revocation of MP Mindaugas Bastys' mandate.

The Lithuanian parliament is to vote Tuesday on whether to strip MP Mindaugas Bastys of his mandate.

Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe inquire about the standards in connection to MP liability formed by the Lithuanian Constitutional Court in the case of Mindaugas Bastys, says the court's president Dainius Žalimas.

The dismissal of Jonas Milius from the post of Lithuania's chief veterinary officer was in line with the country's Organic Law, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday, however, the grounds behind the dismissal will yet be discussed by the Vilnius court that had turned to the Constitutional Court f...

Crimea is part of Ukraine, regardless of annexation of the peninsula by Russia four years ago, Lithuania's Constitutional Court chairman Dainius Žalimas said at a meeting with Crimea's Tatars in Kiev.

The law that entitles businesswoman Kristina Brazauskienė, widow of Lithuania's late president Algirdas Brazauskas, to fee housing runs counter to the Constitution, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday.

Lithuania's Constitutional Court on Tuesday completed hearing in MP Mindaugas Bastys' impeachment case over his alleged ties with people working for the benefit of Russia, pledging to provide a conclusion by the end of 2017.

The Lithuanian Constitutional Court on Monday finished hearing the impeachment case of MP Kęstutis Pūkas charged with sexual harassment and has a month to finish its conclusion whether the MP's actions were in violation of the country's Organic Law.

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office announced on Tuesday that the Migration Department did not disclose classified information to judges of the Russian Constitutional Court who were banned from entering Lithuania due to annexation of Crimea.

Granting dual Lithuanian citizenship to a broader circle of individual sis only possible after changing the Constitution by way of a referendum, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday.

Lithuania's Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas has instructed the ministry's Corruption Prevention and Internal Investigations Division to scrutinize the circumstances of a possible leak of information from the Migration Department to third parties.

Lithuania has been reproached for not inviting representatives of the Russian Constitutional Court to a global constitutional justice congress that got underway in Vilnius on Tuesday.

Government chancellor Milda Dargužaitė, central bank governor Vitas Vasiliauskas and public procurement chief Diana Vilytė are ranked as Lithuania's most influential civil servants, Delfi.lt reported on Monday.

Impeachment proceedings may be opened against persons holding certain posts for crimes committed before taking office, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday.