Russian actor banned from entering Latvia for homophobic comments
A Russian sitcom actor, notorious for his anti-LGBT statements, was banned from entering Latvia for saying gay people should be burned alive, The St. Petersburg Times reports. […]
Month: October 2014
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s Culture Ministry wants attaché in China
Lithuania’s Ministry of Culture wants to have an attaché in China. The new position would be established by renouncing the existing one in Austria. […]
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Estonian PM cancels visit to Lithuania due to cabinet crisis
Due to political tensions that emerged in the Estonian government last week, chairman of the Reform Party, Prime Minister Taavi Roivas cancelled his visit to Lithuania and Sweden that was to take place on Monday; Foreign Trade and Entrepreneurship Minister Anne Sulling will go to the visit instead of him, Postimees Online reports. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian president hopes for more effective cooperation with Brazil
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has congratulated Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on her re-election. […]
Society
Energy
Norwegian energy expert: Lithuania, you are incredible
As “The Independence“, floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, sails into the port of Klaipėda on Monday, Lithuania is showered with international words of congratulation on a major achievement. […]
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Pro-Western forces won in Ukraine but oligarchs didn’t go away, Lithuanian analyst says
Pro-Western forces have won the general elections in Ukraine and they secured a stable majority necessary to push reforms. But a lot of questions remain on oligarchs’ influence on the country’s future progress, says analyst Laurynas Kasčiūnas of the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Lithuania. […]
Foreign affairs
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Lithuanian foreign minister: Ukraine is bidding goodbye to its past
The victory of pro-Western forces in Ukraine‘s general elections shows that the country is bidding goodbye to its past and is ready to take the European path, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
Energy
Floating LNG terminal “Independence” sails into Klaipėda
The floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), built for Lithuania’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, sailed into the port of Klaipėda on Monday morning. At a welcoming ceremony in the afternoon, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said this was a groundbreaking achievement in the country’s aspiration for energy independence. […]
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Sports
On this day in sport: 26 October
On this day in sport American teenager George Foreman was crowned as the 1968 Olympic heavyweight champion after defeating 29-year-old Jonas Čepulis (USSR). […]
Economy
ECB stress test finds Lithuania’s banks secure and reliable
The three largest banks operating in Lithuania – SEB bank, Swedbank and DNB bank – have very solid capital buffers and assess risks conservatively enough. This became clear after the European Central Bank (ECB), in cooperation with the Bank of Lithuania, inspected the asset quality of the three commercial banks and performed stress testing, the country’s central bank said in a report on 26 October. […]
Society
Philosopher Nerija Putinaitė on three Lithuanian Europes
As Lithuania has been a member of a great supranational union for a decade now, Lithuanians are forced to confront the question of their collective identity, says philosopher Nerija Putinaitė. In her new book, “Three Lithuanian Europes: Nation, Europe, the EU in modern identity”, she argues that the question of what it means to be Lithuanian closely relates to visions of Europe. […]
Society
Kaunas University of Technology – Lithuania’s most international school
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) has attracted the largest number of international students among all Lithuanian institutions of higher education as 200 new international students enrolled in KTU this year. The university has 460 foreign students now, KTU said in a statement. […]
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Economy
Lithuanians worried about growing prices after euro introduction
Residents of Lithuania are more worried about growing prices after the euro adoption than Latvians and Estonians were. […]
Economy
Economy
Lithuania to mint golden copies of 16-century coins
The Lithuanian Mint will launch a series of copies of golden coins from the times of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in November. […]
Global LT
Čiurlionis’ music revisited in Washington, DC
Lithuanian composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis had a short, yet very prolific life (he was just 35 when he died in 1911). He considered himself a synesthete, in that he perceived colours and music simultaneously. Čiurlionis composed about 400 pieces of music, mostly for the piano, and he also created 300 paintings – many with musical names. In addition, he wrote literary works and poems. An asteroid – 2420 Čiurlionis – was named after him. Few artists have left such deep influence on Lithuanian culture. […]