Lithuania News

Officials at Lithuania's Soviet-era nuclear plant say they have shut down the facility's last reactor.

Lithuania is a oeproperly prepareda for the closure of the countrya s only nuclear plant today, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said.

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - One of Russia's fiercest critics in the EU, Lithuania, will at the turn of the New Year switch off a nuclear power station, in a move set to test the theory that Russia uses energy as a political weapon.

In my desire to get a fresh perspective on the Middle East while also enjoying a white Christmas and New Year's eve, my wife and I traveled to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and succeeded in achieving both aims, along with seeing some dear old friends.

The Baltic state of Lithuania - sandwiched between Latvia and the Russian exclave Kalingrad - faces an economic contraction of 18% for 2009.

A week after the Swiss referendum banning the construction of new mosque minarets in Switzerland, I flew to Vilnius, Lithuania, for a seminar that focused on the destruction of Jewish heritage in Lithuania during the Holocaust.

Dalia Grybauskaite, the Lithuanian president, has called on the agency's former director to leave his ambassadorial post.

Date : Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:57:57 +0400 LITHUANIA 'HOSTED AT LEAST TWO SECRET CIA PRISONS' press tv Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:04:24 GMT This Thursday, November 19, 2009 picture shows a former riding school outside the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, which allegedly housed a CIA prison.

Former CIA agent Bob Ayers explained Tuesday how it worked. "There were flights coming in from the battlefields and Iraq or Afghanistan.

An inquiry in Lithuania has suggested that the nation hosted at least two secret CIA prisons to assist the United States in the war on terror following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

In a new tactic, lawyers for an alleged archterrorist held at Guantanamo argue in an unlawful detention suit that their client is insane -- and that U.S. agents concluded long ago that any intelligence he could provide is unsound.

To the European Union, the Soviet-built Ignalina nuclear plant set amid Lithuania's lakes and oak forests remains a gigantic safety hazard - too similar to the reactor that exploded at Chernobyl in 1986.

A Lithuanian parliamentary commission said it gathered enough evidence to conclude that the country agreed on a oeconditionsa for the Central Intelligence Agency to operate a secret prison in the Baltic state.

London, Dec. 20 : Chelsea's owner Roman Abramovich has named his newborn son Aaron Alexander.

While Germany debates the ethics and legality of anonymous baby dumping, Ecumenical News Service reports that the Lithuanian government, in conjunction with the country's Catholic bishops, has opened baby hatches in the capital city Vilnius and Klaipeda , the country's only seaport.

This undated file photo provided by Saulius Paukstys shows a cast used to create a replica of a bust of musician Frank Zappa in an art studio in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lithuania's efforts to conflate the crimes of the Shoah with the Soviet Union's occupation of the country triggered criticism on Thursday, at the Global Forum for Combating AntiSemitism international conference in Jerusalem.

This May 7, 2008 file photo shows a couple sitting beneath a statue of Frank Zappa in Vilnius, Lithuania.

VILNIUS, December 17 -- The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday accepted the resignation of the State Security Department's chief, Povilas Malakauskas.

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