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Coronavirus situation:
* 117 new cases of coronavirus were detected per day. In Šiauliai County, two more people died, the number of victims reached 101. 128 people are treated in hospitals for coronavirus, 11 of them in resuscitation.
* The government has decided that in the future it will be necessary to isolate only from countries where the incidence of COVID-19 will be 10 percent higher than in Lithuania. Country-specific lists for next week will be posted every Friday.
* In the Raseiniai district, due to the high incidence of coronavirus, the government introduced the quarantine for two weeks. There are no significant additional restrictions in the municipality, but the mayor says that this legal mechanism will allow for tighter responsibilities and easier access to assistance from the central government and other districts.
* A record number of new cases were registered in Poland, Ukraine and the Czech Republic (3003, 4753 and 4457 respectively).
* In Latvia, the requirement to wear masks on public transport came into force.
Seimas Elections:
* During the first two days of the preliminary vote in the Seimas elections, 36 thousand people expressed their will. 759 voters or 1.52 percent. of everyone on the charts.
* A point has been opened on Savanori Sa avenue in Vilnius, where you can vote without getting out of the car. People in self-isolation cannot vote in it.
* Gabrielius Landsbergis, president of the Lithuanian Christian National-Democratic Union, Ramūnas Karbauskis, president of the Lithuanian Union of Greens and Peasants, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, leader of the Liberal Movement, Viktoras Uspaskich, president of the Labor Party, and Vigilijus Jigna , leader in the advance of the party list, voted the elections. Lbergberg told reporters that the possibility of a minority government was “quite realistic,” while Karbauskas said he hoped to continue working with the ruling majority and did not rule out the possibility of cooperating with a Christian flank within the National Union.
* The call from Prime Minister Silvija Skvernelė’s wife in a closed Facebook group in the Upės Street community in Vilnius district to vote for Interior Minister Rita Tamašūnienė on her efforts to pave the road has been posted on the networks social. “Thanks to their efforts, we have some asphalt today,” Skvernelė said, pointing to the post as a free political ad.
Trade union demonstration. On the occasion of Ora’s World Labor Day, around a hundred union representatives held a protest in Vilnius near the Government House, demanding that the Government increase the monthly minimum wage faster. The unions are calling for the minimum wage to be increased to at least € 663, and the Ministry of Social Security and Labor proposes to increase it from € 35 to € 642 (before taxes). “The fact that the minimum wage will go up is really a fact, and what size, or maximum, that the union wants, or what the government proposes, that point has not yet been set,” Prime Minister Saulius said. Skvernelis.
Ignitis shares. The shares of the state-owned energy group Ignitis grupė have started trading on the Nasdaq Vilnius and London stock exchanges. The director of the company Darius Maikšt quenas says that the initial public offering (IPO) successfully implemented by the company opens the way to the capital market and other state-owned companies. “Our role in this case is an icebreaker or a forerunner,” D. Maikštėnas told BNS.
Solidarity between neighbors. Latvia and Estonia called their ambassadors from Belarus for consultations, thus showing their solidarity with Lithuania and Poland. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry is pressuring the Lithuanians and Poles to reduce the number of diplomats in Minsk.
Good for Gazprom. The Polish Competition Defense Service has allocated 6,460 million. fines to the Russian gas company Gazprom for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Another 52 million. A fine of 1 million euros was imposed on five Russian partner companies.
Lost. Van Halen’s rock star Eddie Van Halen, considered one of the most influential American rock bands of all time, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 65 years old.
Sorry. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky removed Lithuanian Aivars Abromavičius from the post of CEO of the state defense industry company Ukroboronprom. A. Abromavičius says that he has decided to go back to private business.
Arno Strumilos / 15min nuotr./Aivaras Abromavičius
Sanctions for Russia. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has warned Russia that it will inevitably face sanctions if it does not cooperate and provides information on the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navaln. In an interview with the daily Bild, A. Navalnas himself called for the imposition of sanctions on the oligarchs close to the Kremlin.
Tensions in the US Republican President Donald Trump announced that he will end talks with Democrats on a new plan to boost the coronavirus-affected economy and postpone them until after the election. Democrat Joe Biden accused the president of “turning his back” on Americans in the November 3 election.
I’m sorry for the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the French Emmanuelle Charpentier and the American Jennifer A. Doudna for developing genome editing technology. In Lithuania, it has been hoped for many years that Professor Virginijus Šikšnys from Vilnius University could receive the Nobel Prize for the discovery of genetic scissors. “Professor V. Šikšnys has been in line with today’s winners from the beginning, so it is very disappointing,” said Professor Edita Sužiedėlienė, Vice Chancellor of Vilnius University, at BNS.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Virginijus Šikšnys
Court in Greece. A Greek court has recognized the Golden Dawn party as a criminal organization. Punishments for former party leaders will be announced at subsequent meetings. The Golden Dawn had become the third most popular party in the country in 2012, but no representative was elected to parliament last year. This trial has led to thousands of demonstrations and clashes between the police and anti-fascist groups.
Court in Germany. In Russia, a Russian suspect suspected of murdering a former Chechen militant commander in Berlin Park has begun. The 55-year-old defendant, identified by prosecutors as Vadim Krasikov but posing as Vadim Sokolov, is charged with shooting 40-year-old Sakartvel citizen Tornik Kavtarašvili in Tyrgarten park on 23 August last year. Krasikov has yet to say anything about the killing, but German prosecutors believe it was ordered by Moscow. This trial could further worsen relations between Berlin and Moscow.
The Karabakh crisis. Nagorno-Karabakh officials have announced that roughly half of the roughly 150,000 have had to leave their homes due to the conflict with Azerbaijan. population of the region.
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