Vilnius mayor

Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says he doubts there is a need for the Moscow House in the Lithuanian capital which is being constructed.

Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says that the municipality will comply with the decision of the Competition Council and exit taxi business, divesting itself of the taxi company Vilnius Veža created by the previous mayor. It is yet unclear what procedure will be applied to the company.

Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says the Lithuanian capital in essence remains without roundtrip flights after airline Air Lituanica terminated its operations. A special flight promotion fund should be created in order to attract new air carriers to Vilnius.

Mayor of Vilnius Remigijus Šimašius and Swedish Ambassador to Lithuania Cecilia Ruthstrom-Ruin participated in the ceremony of the Step Challenge awards hosted by the Embassy of Sweden to Lithuania, Vilnius Municipality reports.

A sculpture of the legendary musician and songwriter of The Beatles, John Lennon, was unveiled in Vilnius on Thursday.

In an interview with The Lithuania Tribune, the new Vilnius Mayor, Remigijus Šimašius, revealed his administration’s Open Data Policy could have legal consequences for the city’s previous government headed by Artūras Zuokas.

It has been just over two months since the Liberal Movement’s Remigijus Šimašius was voted in as Mayor of Vilnius.

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New Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius and members of the new municipal council were sworn in on Wednesday.

Vilnius Mayor-elect Remigijus Šimašius says that Italian investors who last year signed a deal with the local government on the upgrading and maintenance of the capital's street lighting network so far have not provided arguments to convince the authorities that their project is the best for the cit...

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Linas Kojala, Analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre. We spoke about the result of the Lithuania's municipal elections, and political future of the former Mayor of Vilnius Artūras Zuokas

Liberal Remigijus Šimašius has won Vilnius mayor election, beating incumbent Artūras Zuokas in Sunday's run-off vote.

Outgoing Vilnius Mayor Artūras Zuokas, of the Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals) (LLS), says that his defeat in Vilnius mayoral election will only push him to venture into national politics. Zuokas says that we will run for presidency in 2019.

Vilnius mayor-elect Remigijus Šimašius says he sees no problems with allowing LGBt pride events to be held in the centre of the Lithuanian capital, something that has provoked legal clashes in earlier years.

Remigijus Šimašius, the Liberal Movement's candidate elected for Vilnius mayor on Sunday, says that the Soviet-era sculptures should be removed from the Green Bridge of the Lithuanian capital due to their emergency condition.

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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday called on the country parliament to consider replacing leadership of the Central Electoral Commission before the general elections next year. The commission, she says, fails to respond to violations properly.

After local elections in Lithuania last Sunday, the new Vilnius City Municipality Council will include 38 male and 12 female councillors. The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania and the Russian Alliance Block of Valdemar Tomaševski delegated four women, the Liberal Movement, three, the Homeland U...

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Liberal MP Remigijus Šimašius and incumbent Mayor Artūras Zuokas will face one another in the run-off election for Vilnius mayor, the Central Electoral Commission said on Monday.