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Vilnius authorities have pledged to work hard over the next five years in order to reduce the number of infants and children living in institutions. Only in the most exceptional cases, when foster parents cannot be found, will children be housed in an orphanage, Vilnius City Council reports.
Liberal Remigijus Šimašius, who has been serving as the mayor of Vilnius for 100 days, says that he managed to reduce the city's debt by 2.4 percent or EUR 8.6 million in the period from late April to early July.
Vilnius City Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has confirmed that he has indeed received requests from Sovetsk City Mayor Nikolay Voishchev and Russian Ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov to hand over the Green Bridge statues to Russia.
Following a prolonged public debate, this week Vilnius authorities have removed four groups of Soviet-era statues that have stood on the Green Bridge since the early 1950s. What remain are four empty-looking pedestals overlooking the banks of the Neris River. People of Vilnius have already started m...
Vilnius Municipality is setting up a special commission to address social issues related to the Vilnius-based Roma settlement and take care of Roma integration.
Early Monday morning, two of the four Soviet era statues on the Green Bridge of Vilnius were removed. In their place, pots with blooming flowers were placed.
Vilnius authorities have postponed discussions on the introduction of a "pillow tax" of 50 euro cents as of next year, the spokesman for Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius told BNS on Wednesday.
According to the real estate agency Ober-Haus' Baltic Apartment Price Index, apartment prices in Vilnius grew 0.3 percent to EUR 1,298/sqm in June.
Vilnius City Municipality has turned to the Prosecutor General's Office asking to investigate if the capital of airline Air Lituanica was formed legally.
Unlike the capitals of Latvia or Estonia, Lithuania's Vilnius has a sense of a lived city catering for the locals as much as for tourists, according to Sarah Khan who has spent 36 hours in Vilnius and shared her experience in The New York Times.
Vilnius authorities plan to start the removal of the Soviet Green Bridge statues next week and it will take up to two week to complete the work, a spokesman for the municipality said on Thursday.
Vilnius authorities are considering to introduce a "pillow tax" of 50 euro cents as of next year, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius said on Wednesday.
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says he doubts there is a need for the Moscow House in the Lithuanian capital which is being constructed.
A court has ordered a freeze on all of the assets of Air Lituanica, a defunct airline that is indirectly owned by the city of Vilnius.
Mark Adam Harold, a British citizen and member of the Vilnius Council's Liberal Movement political group, has been kicked out of the group for a disrespectful Facebook post about Lithuania.
Air Lituanica, an already defunct airline established by the city of Vilnius, will try to open bankruptcy proceedings in court.
A cultural-educational project dubbed "Talking Statues of Vilnius" will be launched in Laurynas Stuoka-Gucevičius Square in central Vilnius.
Creditors of Air Lituanica, a defunct airline established by the city of Vilnius, will decide on the company’s bankruptcy at a meeting due on June 25.
Vilnius Regional Court on Friday found former Vice Mayor of Vilnius Romas Adomavičius, of the Social Democratic Party, guilty in a corruption case.
On Thursday, 11 June, Lithuania's Constitutional Court ruled that legal regulations that distribute personal income tax (PIT) to municipal budgets contravened the Constitution. Only 40 percent of PIT used to be transferred to Vilnius City Municipality based on these regulations. The Vilnius authorit...
