The number of nights spent by foreign visitors in the three Baltic capitals was highest in Tallinn in the first half of 2024, according to data from the Latvian Hotel and Restaurant Association (LVRA), BNS reports. Foreigners spent 1.075 million nights at accommodation establishments in Tallinn, followed by Riga with 851,000 and Vilnius with 699,000….
Swedish telecommunications group Telia Company plans to lay off 400 people in Lithuania, BNS reports. The company intends to lay off 200 employees at telecommunications operator Telia Lietuva and another 200 at its Vilnius-based competence centre, Telia Global Services Lithuania. The group will decentralise most of its operations, with decision-making moved to each country, as…
Latvia’s national air carrier, airBaltic, will open flights to several new destinations from the three Baltic capitals in summer 2025, including five from Tallinn, four from Riga, and seven from Vilnius, LRT reports. The company will offer flights from Tallinn to Tirana in Albania, to Hamburg in Germany, to Reykjavik in Iceland, and to Barcelona…
Schools in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, have received multiple bomb threats in Russian at the start of the new school year on 2 September 2024, BNS reports. Police have so far received 26 reports of such threats sent to schools by email. None of the threats have proved to be real. Hundreds of bomb threats…
Altogether 5,500 people in Lithuania have registered at command posts or special command offices as national defence volunteers, RBC-Ukraine reports, citing Polskie Radio. The registration process ended on 31 August 2024. Over 2,500 of the registered volunteers come from the Vilnius region. The volunteers will undergo selection and then begin specialised training in October 2024….
Air quality in the capital cities of the three Baltic States is best in Estonia’s Tallinn and worst in Latvia’s Riga, according to a new study by the European Environment Agency (EEA), LSM reports. Tallinn ranked 9th out of altogether 372 cities in Europe with “good” air quality that is better than the World Health…
NATO allies agree that the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) should manage the rotation of air-defence systems in the Baltic region, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda stated, BNS reports. He said that political leaders of individual countries need not travel to different capitals and request anti-air defence systems. The NATO summit in Vilnius agreed in 2023…
NATO must be ready for Russia turning even more hostile in the decade to come, Estonian President Alar Karis warned, ERR reports. Speaking after a meeting with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda in Vilnius, Karis said that Russia would remain NATO’s most serious military threat for a very long time. He called on NATO allies to…
Authorities in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, have unveiled a comprehensive city defence plan, BNS reports. The city plans to procure defensive anti-mobility installations, create a public drone training track, increase bomb shelter capacity to cover the entire population, update evacuation plans, and deploy additional warning systems and emergency communication tools. Vilnius mayor Valdas Benkunskas emphasised…