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Vilnius, Lithuania - Court Rejects Request to Jail Holocaust Criminal (Vos Iz Neais)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:57:53 GMT

Vilnius, Lithuania - An Appeal Court today rejected a request by state prosecutors to imprison an 87-year old Nazi-era war criminal found guilty of Holocaust crimes. In March 2006, Algimantas Mykolas Dailide was found guilty of persecuting Jews during the World War II Nazi occupation of Lithuania. He currently lives in Germany. However, the district court also [...]

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Lithuania: Attacks focused on hosting company (Computer World)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT

A vulnerability in a Web server contributed to attacks on some 300 Web sites in Lithuania earlier this week, a ...

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Lithuania: Attacks focused on hosting company ([SecurityRatty] Lattest Articles)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT

A vulnerability in a Web server contributed to attacks on some 300 Web sites in Lithuania earlier this week,...

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Lithuania Weathers Cyber Attack, Braces for Round 2 (Security Fix)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:44:17 GMT

Hundreds of Lithuanian government and corporate Web sites were hacked and plastered with Soviet-era symbols and other digital graffiti this week in what appears to be a coordinated cyber attack launched by Russian hacker groups. A New York Times story reports that Lithuanian officials did not directly accuse Russian hackers of initiating the attacks, but said they had come from foreign...

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Jewish Organizations Urge Lithuania to Speed up Restitution (Yeshiva World News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:34:37 GMT

The World Jewish Congress has called on the Lithuanian government to urgently address the negative climate in the country vis-à-vis members of its Jewish community and to speedily enact legislation allowing for the restitution of properties seized under the Nazi occupation. At a meeting in New York attended by several leaders of Jewish organizations, WJC [...]

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Poland and Lithuania (Travelblog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:10:45 GMT

Mouse:0,00mTotal Distance:0 km0 milesShow: Points Route Map Title: Poland and LithuaniaMap Notes:After leaving Berlin we travelled East and along the Polish North coast to Gdansk, a small city on the coast. We spent a couple of hours trying to find somewhere to stay as it had been pouring with rain and we weren't interested in camping. We eventually happened upon a very nice hotel in the centre...

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Russia warns Lithuania on US missile defense (OTB News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:42:56 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian lawmakers warned Lithuania against agreeing to place U.S. missile defense sites in the Baltic country, saying Wednesday that such a move could trigger a Russian military buildup in the region….

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Lithuania good site for missile defense, says Gates (Turkish daily news)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:13:02 GMT

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday the Baltic state of Lithuania would be a "good alternative" to Poland as the site for a U.S. missile defense base should negotiations with the Poles

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Lithuania Foots Bill for Sex Change (Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:37:00 GMT

Lithuania has paid 40,000 euros ($63,000) for a citizen to undergo a full sex change operation because the government missed a July 1 deadline to adopt a domestic gender reassignment law.

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France keen on joining Lithuania’s new nuclear reactor project (Baltic Times)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:19:34 GMT

VILNIUS - A top French government official has said that France was interested in taking part in Lithuania’s new nuclear power plant if one of the exiting partners dropped out of the project. Lithuanian Economy Minister Vytas Navickas told reporters that Jean-Louis Borloo, France’s minister of sta

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Vilnius Pays Tribute to Frank Zappa (The Lobby from SPG)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:46:53 GMT

The Lithuanian capital of Vilnius boasts a rather unusual monument to a western rocker who never set foot in the country but nonetheless had a profound effect on it. The intellectuals behind Lithuania's successful independence movement in the early 1990's...

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Concerts & Festivals - Culture loses out to the hard stuff (Baltic Times)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:19:47 GMT

VILNIUS - Festivals in Lithuania are suffering. It is too difficult for independent organizers to invent new festivals, while the same old festivals are continuing on in a cultural, and political environment that is constantly changing. Trends have shown that citizens of the new European Union me

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Lithuanian truckers take up French tactics (Baltic Times)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:19:36 GMT

VILNIUS - A convoy of trucks protesting rising fuel prices brought traffic near Siauliai, Lithuania’s fourth largest city, to a halt on June 27. Around 70 trucks were involved in the go-slow protest in Siauliai, according to Anatoly Yakimov, an official from the national truckers association. Lithua

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Lithuanian-Polish grid link could become reality in 2013 (Baltic Times)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:19:34 GMT

VILNIUS - A grid link between Lithuania and Poland that would connect the Baltic state with the rest of the EU could become operational in 2013, officials responsible for the project announced June 25. Yet executives at LitPol Link, a Lithuanian-Polish joint venture, added in the next breath that

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Kirkilas, Grybauskaite trade barbs over economy (Baltic Times)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:19:32 GMT

VILNIUS - Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas and Dalia Grybauskaite, Lithuania’s representative on the European Commission, reignited their ongoing feud over the health of Lithuania’s economy, with the head of government becoming so exasperated that he threatened to take his personal grievances to Br

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Cyber terrorists attack state and corporate Web sites (Baltic Times)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:19:29 GMT

VILNIUS - Hackers from an unknown location have infiltrated over 300 Lithuanian Web sites in the past week, leaving Soviet symbols and spiteful messages in Russian. The hacked sites belong to both government and private groups, including the car dealer Tokvila, the retailer Rimi and Lithuania’s secu

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Russia warns Lithuania against U.S. missile defense sites (Russia News Net)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:26:06 GMT

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Russia warns Lithuania on US missile defense (Russia News Net)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:40:29 GMT

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Russia warns Lithuania on US missile defense (kansascity.com)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:40:00 GMT

Russian lawmakers warned Lithuania against agreeing to place U.S. missile defense sites in the Baltic country, saying Wednesday that such a move could trigger a Russian military buildup in the region.

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US: Lithuania agrees to consider hosting missile shield (Global Security)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:38:04 GMT

SecDef Gates said Lithuania has agreed to consider hosting a missile interceptor base if the U.S. deal with Poland falls through.

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