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Linas Jegelevicius

Linas Jegelevicius

Baltic Times

Contributor since: 18 Jul 2018

Biography

Linas Jegelevicius is a veteran Lithuanian editor and freelance journalist, and the editor-in-chief of the Baltic Times newspaper, the longest running English print news outlet in the Baltics, and its news portal www.baltictimes.com.

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    Amid fears of escalating global trade wars, the European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat has registered a tangible slowdown in the first half of the year,…

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    In all likelihood, you have not considered buying a Russian car. But perhaps now is a good time for a change of heart, geopolitics be…

  • Russia Ditches U.S. Dollar For Gold As Tensions Rise

    Published 26 July 2018 | viewed 28,803 times

    Russia‘s U.S. dollar reserves have shrunk from $96.1 billion in March to just $14.9 billion in May, according to the Russian Central Bank. Its governor,…

  • VW Stockpiles Cars Over Emissions Testing Bottlenecks

    Published 25 July 2018 | viewed 8,880 times

    Germany‘s flagman automaker Volkswagen has ended up in a very unfamiliar and alarming situation: It’s on the constant lookout for immense storage space on both…

  • European Union Hits Google With A $5 Billion Fine

    Published 23 July 2018 | viewed 1,837 times

    How to set the size of a fine for a market behemoth like Google? Well, consider first that you’ve finally seen a golden opportunity to…

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    Published 18 July 2018 | viewed 2,083 times

    Vladimir Putin typically shuns mentioning any concrete names when speaking publicly, but he made an exception to the rule at his joint conference with U.S.…