Posts under ‘Lithuania’

RIGA- Latvia has
confirmed its first case of the H1N1 (swine) flu virus. The nation’s Public
Health Agency announced that the infected woman, who had recently visited the United States and Canada,
had returned to Latvia on June 21.

“Symptoms
of the illness were discovered during the flig…

RIGA- The
recently approved budget amendments for 2009 have reduced all teachers’
salaries by half as of Sept. 1. The teachers will be receiving the bare minimum
subsistence amount, 172 lats per month.
The current gross monthly salary for teachers is 345 lats per month.
Teachers had
previousl…

TALLINN- Master
Sergeant Allain Tikko, a thirty-year-old Estonian soldier serving in Afghanistan was
killed in an attack on June 15.

“I bow my head in deep mourning in memory of Allain Tikko, an Estonian soldier
that has fallen in battle,” President Toomas Hendrik Ilves wrote to the famil…

VILNIUS- n a show of solidarity with the other European Capital of Culture 2009, two
Austrian pensioners are walking from Linz to Vilnius, 1,500
kilometers.

Cultural ambassadors Herbert Hirnum and Wolfgang Mayrhofer are making the
symbolic journey since both cities have the status of European…