Military draft lists were compiled on Monday at the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania. 36,825 youths will receive conscription notices and 3,000 of them will have to serve in 2015.

'Lithuanian authorities rob Poles' land, destroy education and sow hatred,' 'Stop discrimination of Poles in Lithuania' - Polish picketers stood with such posters in front of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Warsaw last Saturday. The protest was organized against the discriminatory educational reform carried out by the Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science.

Bank DNB analysts say that it is clear when evaluating Lithuania's short-term export prospects that the first six months of 2015 will be the hardest. Producers who incurred losses due to harsh sanctions imposed by Russia are now reorienting towards new markets and reforming their business models.

On 6 May 2015, the Embassy of Lithuania in London held an annual meeting of Lithuanian honorary consuls in the United Kingdom. The meeting addressed important issues of Lithuania-UK bilateral relations and presented a great opportunity to discuss the expectations of the Lithuanian diaspora in the UK.

Divisions of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and internal security system trained responding to terrorist attacks on strategic state objects during the national Exercise Lightning Bolt 2015 in Klaipėda.

The 9th of May marks the 65th anniversary of the historical "Schuman declaration". That day of 1950 in Paris, French Foreign Affairs Minister Robert Schuman proclaimed the idea of supranational community which became the foundation of the European Union as we know it today.

The Lithuanian Seimas adopted amendments to the Law on Intelligence and thus authorised intelligence agencies to receive information from financial companies and institutions as well as other legal persons not only about present financial transactions, but about financial operations completed in the past.

On Wednesday, High Court in London dismissed the challenge of Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, the suspects in the bank Snoras case, to stop extradition to Lithuania.

It is planned that in 2016 Lithuania will have from 9,000 to 10,000 professional soldiers, whereas by 2021 the number is expected to be increased to 14,000-19,000.

37 super-rich people or people whose net asset value amounts to at least 30 million US dollars, lived in Estonia in 2014, which is by one more than in 2013, Postimees Online cites a report Wealth 2015 by consultancy firm Knight Frank. Latvia has 69 super-rich and Lithuania 86.