Kazakhstan

Торговцы не хотят, чтобы казахстанскую нефть перепутали с российской. Теперь она будет называться "Казахстанская экспортная смесь сырой нефти" - KEBCO.

Массовые акции протеста в крупнейших городах Казахстана привели к столкновениям и попыткам захвата административных зданий. В Алма-Ате власти отключили интернет, на улицах слышны выстрелы.

Lithuania plans to rebury the remains of political prisoners buried at the Rudnyk Cemetery in Kazakhstan's region of Karaganda.

Mission Siberia, an expedition organized annually to tend to graves of Lithuanian deportees and political prisoners, has been cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organizers said on Tuesday.

Having won a Lithuanian State Scholarship, Kazakh student Adil Karim from Almaty came to Mykolas Romeris University last year to better his English language skills, learn Lithuanian and take classes in history, psychology.

Kazachstane penktadienio rytą sudužus oro linijų „Bek Air“ lėktuvui žuvo 12 žmonių, o dar 49 buvo sužeisti, patikslintus duomenis skelbia Vidaus reikalų ministerijos Nepaprastųjų situacijų komitetas.

Participants of the annual Mission Siberia left for Kazakhstan from Vilnius Railway Station on Wednesday.

Viciunu Grupe (Viciunai Group), a business group controlled by Visvaldas Matijosaitis, mayor of Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas, has established a sales company, Vichiunai Sakartvelo, in the Georgian capital.

Kyrgyz officials made a criminal agreement with Garsu Pasaulis, one of the largest printing houses in Lithuania, which won a 12 million euro tender to produce new-format passport blanks, the country's authorities claim, which the Lithuanian company denies, the Verslo Zinios business daily writes.

Lithuania's former political prisoners and deportees called on Russia during their convention on Saturday to let participants of the Mission Siberia project into the country.

Lithuania's visa services will stop cooperation with commercial intermediaries selling travel organization services in Russia while issuing Schengen visas as of February, according to an order signed by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius.

Lithuania's 17th Mission Siberia expedition is leaving for Kazakhstan on Thursday morning.

No artificial barriers can prevent young people from honoring the memory of the victims of Stalinism, just as no one can deny the historical truth about the genocide against the Lithuanian people, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said as she met with members of Mission Siberia'18 team on Wednesday.

Lithuania's annual Mission Siberia expedition, organized annually to tend to the burial cites of Lithuanian deportees in Russia, will go to Kazakhstan this year after Russia barred entry to the mission's participants, the Lithuanian national radio Lietuvos Radijas said on Monday.

Lithuania's Vice Minister of Environment Martynas Norbutas has come under fire for attending a seminar for post-Soviet countries in the United States.

SCAT Airlines, Kazakhstan's second-largest air company, launched direct flights connecting Vilnius and Astana on Sunday.

SCAT Airlines is set to launch in late May direct flights between Kazakhstan's capital of Astana and Lithuania's capital of Vilnius.

Wednesday's opening of a representative office in Poland by Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) marks a shift in focus to the West, the state railway company's chief executive officer said.

Dainius Pavalkis, a former Lithuanian education and science minister, has become one of the heads of Kazakh National Medical University.

On Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry registered draft legislation on the appointment of new ambassadors to Germany, Italy and the Vatican.