Early voting opened at polling stations at 7 a.m. Tuesday to elect Lithuania’s next president and decide on the retention of citizenship in a mandatory referendum.
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Lithuanian businessman Aivaras Abromavičius, who was recently appointed to run Ukraine's Ministry of Economy, is about to lose his Lithuanian passport.
Lawyers at the Lithuanian Seimas say that President Dalia Grybauskaitė's amendments on dual citizenship for people with exceptional merits to the country may run counter to the Constitution.
Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania Loreta Graužinienė has welcomed the president's proposal to expand provisions for dual citizenship and underlined that the country's Constitution needs to be amended to stay in touch with the times.
Chair of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, Artūras Paulauskas, believes that amendments to the Law on Citizenship proposed by the president will not solve any problems. According to him, a referendum should be held on dual citizenship for the nation to decide the issue, and ther...
After news broke that basketball player Žydrūnas Ilgauskas would lose his Lithuanian passport after accepting US citizenship, Lithuanian leaders are eager to avoid potential embarrassment.
