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Society

KTU Santaka Valley to host open lecture series on zooetics by World-Class Researchers

Interdisciplinary art research platform Jutempus (Vilnius, Lithuania) launches Zooetics, a 5 year long exploration of future environmental fictions and models. ‘Zooetics’ is a notion in progress to explore new ways to engage human knowledge and research with other forms of life — from mammals to microbes to molluscs — and to imagine designs, prototypes and interfaces for future interspecies ecologies. […]

United Nations in New York

Lithuania and all other EU Member States did not support Russia’s resolution at UN which attempts to manipulate history

The Resolution on Combating Glorification of Nazism and Other Contemporary Forms of Racism put forward by the Russian Federation was adopted by voting on 21 November 2014 at the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, 115 states voting for, 3 against, and 55 abstaining. Lithuania as well as other EU Member States have abstained in the vote and made a very strong Explanation of Vote. […]

Parliament of the Russian Federation
Foreign affairs

Russian Duma’s Communists propose breaking off diplomatic relations with Lithuania

On Friday, Russian State Duma’s Communists suggested to make a statement on sanctions and perhaps break off diplomatic relations with Lithuania, following Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė’s statements earlier where she called Russia a terrorist state. […]

LNG "Independence"

Klaipeda LNG terminal to supply Finnish-Estonian terminal with gas – Lithuanian PM

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that he welcomes an agreement between Estonia and Finland to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, adding that Lithuania’s LNG terminal in Klaipėda will be able to supply the future-to-be Finnish-Estonian facility with gas. […]