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The Court of Appeal of Lithuania has refused to recognize a divorce certificate issued in the Russia-annexed region of Crimea.

The Lithuanian Court of Appeals on Friday ruled to extradite Evaldas Rimašauskas, a Lithuanian national accused of swindling US tech giants Facebook and Google off 100 million US dollars via an email fraud scheme, to the United States.

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

The Lithuanian Court of Appeals on Friday dismissed appeals in a case in which Ylya Vorobyov, an 82-year-old former KGB officer, was charged with genocide for his role in the arrest of Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in 1956. To read this article, try a €5.99 ...

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has lodged an appeal with the Lithuanian Court of Appeals against a Vilnius court's ruling not to extradite Syrym Shalabayev, a Kazakh citizen who has been granted political asylum in Lithuania, for prosecution in Kazakhstan and Ukraine. To read this articl...

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has dismissed three judges from the Vilnius County Court, appointing them to the Court of Appeal of Lithuania. The judges in question are Goda Ambrasaitė-Balynienė, Antanas Rudzinskas and Algimantas Valantinas.

The European Parliament's (EP) Committee on Legal Affairs on Tuesday advised that the EP should lift the legal immunity of Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich, the founder of the country's ruling Labour Party.