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The Vilnius Prosecutor's Office has closed a pre-trial investigation into allegations of sexual harassment at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA).

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has pledged to form an ad hoc commission at the parliament to scrutinize the sexual misconduct allegations against MP Mykolas Majauskas.

None of the five applicants for the job of director of the Russian Drama Theatre of Lithuania scored the minimum number of points in the selection process on Monday.

Lithuanian National Culture and Arts Prize winner, photographer Gintautas Trimakas, who has been accused of unacceptable behaviour toward female students, is leaving the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA).

Lithuanian theater director Jonas Vaitkus who has been recently accused of sexual harassment has been suspended from work with students at the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy.

Vilnius prosecutors will look into the public reports about possible sexual harassment after instructions from Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis to scrutinize all legal circumstances of the events.

Jonas Vaitkus, head of the Russian Theater of Lithuania, has publicly dismissed sexual harassment allegations as part of a "defamation campaign" carried out by Russian propaganda channels ahead of the selection of a new head of the Russian-language theatre in Vilnius.